Re: Is there any point to Ira's site ???
- From: "Trash80" <trash80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:33:19 GMT
To: Bob Campbell
Re: Re: Is there any point to Ira's site ???
By: Bob Campbell to comp.sys.tandy on Tue Jan 29 2008 21:37:15
I certainly don't see much point to it any longer. You can't download
80 Micro magazines any longer, as far as I could see the last time I
checked. The software downloads are absurdly complicated. One file
at a time!?!?! The whole thing should be available as a single big ZIP
file, so others can preserve it as well.
Fortunately for me, I grabbed the entire contents of his site a few
years ago, using a "site grabber" utility. Then I burned it to CDs.
I also downloaded all of the 80 Micro PDFs he had available, but I have
a complete collection of the real things anyways.
I wouldn't send him a piece of bread if he was starving. He is doing
nothing for the TRS-80 community, except for "see all the cool stuff I
have that you don't - and I won't share it with you because I'm a jerk!"
You've got it all wrong. It is because of "jerks" like you that Ira had to
change his site to a single download at a time. Why? Because bandwidth cost
money. Real money that he wasn't getting in donations despite the fact that
some people did donate.
Ira spent vasts amount of time and money making all the software, manuals, and
magazines that people sent him available to the public for free. And you with
your "site grabber" took advantage of him and probably cost him money too.
Now, since you have an archive if his whole site why don't you host it
somewhere for all to download (somewhere permanent and well laid out I might
add). In other words, put up or shut up.
As for Ira himself, he mailed TRS-DOS disks to me when I had none, and some
comms software on disk on another occassion. He mailed these items to me
without any upfront payment for his costs (postage, materials) and simply said
asked me to donate what I feel is appropriate when I get the disks.
I was watching one of the first few episodes of the TV show Jericho where the
town had a BBQ using the last remaining food in the local grocery store (as
there was no power). When most of the town folk had finished eating someone
remarked to the store owner (this is a small town, small store) that the BBQ
had gone well and everyone had enjoyed themselves. The store owner agreed but
commented that not one person had thank her. This whole thread reminds me of
that scene. Can you figure out which character you are?
Regards,
Doug
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