For general noting, we did a drop-dead backup of FTP.HP.COM in 2013 as part of a recognition that FTP sites were mostly being set adrift and were often unique sources of material.
https://archive.org/details/ftp-ftp.hp.com_ftp1 (2013 Backup) https://archive.org/details/ftp-ftp.hp.com_pub-2013-10 (Alternate Backup) On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Swift Griggs <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you care, you might want to check out: > ftp://ftp.hp.com:/pub/alphaserver/firmware > > I'm always updating firmware on older alphas and I've noticed this site > has undergone some changes lately. I've also noticed that HP's web sites > have been absolutely trashed for a couple of years now. However, now many > alpha related searches return 0 results on most of their portals. When you > do find something, it's often a dead link. Many of the Tru64 pages are all > a broken link, broken CSS, shambles. > > Anyhow, my trust in HP is at an all-time-low (more than I even knew was > possible after I got my whopping $26 dollar settlement for them ripping > folks off on ink cartridges and getting class-action-sued for it). > Unsurprisingly, they can't even run a website anymore, and even the FTP > site seems to be feeling the shake up (directories moving around, things > obviously undergoing some major changes). So, you might want to grab > whatever you need off the post-Fiorina walking corpse of HP before they go > full zombie and eat their own brains and lose everything. There are > patches, firmware etc... many things their management would probably > remove if they were literate enough to know they still had them online in > an undamaged form (folks so often forget about FTP). > > -Swift >
