Print ad archive progress
I've passed my personal deadline for the print ad archive - sorry about that but it's not progressed any further than 3 weeks ago. I'll get there eventually.
Site scraping
My attention has been on scraping active sites, creating an offline archive of those, tidying up other files, and that's now 420GB in size. I have a separate 2.5TB archive of other stuff, which I haven't even looked at yet. I think this is barely touching the surface of what's out there - I'll need to draw the line somewhere as I don't have enough time to try and grab everything, but I would like to try and get as much System 6/7 software as possible.
Storage/backup situation
I created a thread in the lounge to discuss this, and lots of people contributed good ideas. I'm keeping an eye on eBay to purchase some used hardware that will allow me to have a large enough amount of storage (probably at least 10TB), in a RAID configuration, and CCC (Carbon Copy Cloner) set up with scheduled tasks to do backups. This is only for offline storage/backup at my home. Machut.net is hosted on a DigitalOcean instance with just 10GB storage at the moment, because hosting is expensive - I can increase the disk size as time goes on, but it will get to a point where I won't be able to afford it, so it will limit what I can put online vs. what I have to keep in offline archives.
More mirrors resurrected and now hosted on machut.net!
I have put some more mirrors online:
The next site was created a long time ago by
@TylerEss who I think left this hobby quite some time ago, but maybe one day he'll see that his old pages have been resurrected:
I have gone through the site to fix broken links, re-host linked software and make sure its as usable as possible.
My favourite page is this one with useful utilities for System 7.1
Some Mac Garden additions
I have also uploaded a few things to Mac Garden which were missing. These were discovered while I was tidying up Tyler's pages.
Probably not that useful these days but I was surprised this wasn't on Mac Garden.
This was buried on the Adobe Acrobat 3.0 CD, this is standalone, so at least now if for some reason, someone looks up PsPrinter, they hopefully will see it.
Mac Garden did have this, but as part of another set of installers, these are standalone and easier to install.
Again I was surprised this wasn't on the Garden already, maybe not that essential today but could be handy for someone!?