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WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL is passing away
From: David Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1993 02:44:12 -0500
The massive archive site WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, USA, which is home to more than 2 gigabytes of files for many computer systems, including MSDOS, Unix, VMS and some mainframes, will be shut down by its operators as of September 20, 1993. Unless a new home is found for the archives, this major archive site will vanish. This is a major archive and if it is possible to save it, then it should not be allowed to just disappear. If anyone knows of a site that can house the master archives, please send a message to Keith Petersen <w8sdz () TACOM-EMH1 Army Mil> Mr. Petersen is trying to find a new home for the master archives. Note that many of the older files are on CD-ROM, so it is not absolutely necessary that a site dedicate two GB of disk space, as perhaps 3/4 of this is on CDs, so the option would be to loan perhaps 4 CD slots in an optical jukebox, along with perhaps 500 meg of disk space. Please pass this message to any list that might find it of interest. Thank you. --- Paul Robinson -- TDARCOS () MCIMAIL COM
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