Merch's phone number is out there and there's a reference dated July 2020 so he's probably still around; why not call & see.
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 7:22 PM Jesse Lafleur <jesslafl...@gmail.com> wrote: > really irks me when people respond like that.... we're talking about > history that is literally disappearing before our eyes and some people who > claim to be fans or preservers or what have you - just cannot be bothered > and it is infuriating and really sad. > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 7:17 PM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Does anyone have a copy of Roger Merchberger's Tandy 600 files archive? >> http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/1998-November/0437.html >> >> There is a 600 directory in the M100SIG but it's missing the HHOS >> directory that apparently had these development tools: >> >> https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Works_Utility_Disk_for_Model_600_1986_Tandy >> >> >> Thomas McLaren apparently has them but for some reason he's not sharing. >> His response to my email requesting them was only: >> >> "as of about two years ago, it was possible to piece it back together >> from Tandy 600 file archive sites" >> >> Without mentioning the names any such archives, and he never even >> responded to my follow up question. >> >> I have been unable to find these files anywhere. All I ever found was >> dead links and references like that post above, and very few of those. >> In archive.org I once found an old snapshot of a web page that had a >> link to an HHOS directory, but the directory itself was not captured, >> just the index page showing that it existed. >> >> The few links that are archived, point to ftp sites not web sites, and >> those are not archived anywhere. >> >> For instance: >> >> https://web.archive.org/web/19991004190900/http://www.nyx.net/%7Elekollar/t600/ >> >> ..links to ftp.northernway.net/Tandy600 >> >> >> This is the closest I've ever been able to come: >> >> http://web.archive.org/web/20040929172841/http://www.30below.com/~zmerch/classics/Tandy600/ >> >> Neither the hhos directory nor the !T6Archive.tgz file are really there, >> nor "t600.uue" which could have been anything but at over 650k it could >> possibly be a uuencoded disk image or zip. >> >> Did anyone download a copy of that Tandy600 directory when it was up? Or >> knows the vip club members only super sekrit location where they are >> still up? >> >> -- >> bkw >> >
