I am actually working on just such a thing. I have a 10GB software archive, mainly for Mac OS X, Newton, and PowerPC with a little 68K. I would like to expand it to Linux, NeXT, and UNIX. Several friends of mine from the MUG I started in college have also been interested in helping.
The end vision is to have a public database driven website that is relatively up to date and hosts all the files locally. The counter part to this is an archive of 800+ HTML formatted news articles. The project started a couple years back as my personal archive of often used updates and freeware and has just grown. After starting the MUG is jumped from maybe 1.5GB to 10GB in about a year and a half. If anyone is interested in helping please email me. David On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 07:24 PM, Martin A. Totusek wrote: > A Mac OS site where everything (not just drivers) are there for D/L, > not > just remote links? > > A site like that with both 680x0 and PCI software files (not just > links) > would also be of much interest to me and many other users. A complete > collection of shareware, freeware, and "vaporware" installers that > could > be collectively assembled and archived for all Mac OS (both 68k and > PPC) > stuff, by the Macintosh Community itself (like so much older MS Windows > and/or DOS stuff already is on "The Other Side" at many, many sites). > > I would be willing to put in some time in to help with it, but be > forewarned that I currently only have 56K analog modem access, so U/Ls > from my end would take a long time. As APPLE has tossed 25 million+ > non-native G3/G4 machine owners/users (not even counting the number of > 68k CPU machine users), access to many older and/or not so old non OS > X/Rhapsody/NeXT based softwares is already starting to becoming > problematical in some areas > -Martin Totusek > THE MAC REFERENCE ARTICLE > <http://www.eskimo.com/~mtq/> -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
