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DataFile PD CDs

10 posts, 6 voices

Apr 30, 2016 10:08pm Matt Price (2343) 71 posts	Just found on archive.org, along with APDL PD discs and Acorn User CDs https://archive.org/details/cdrom-riscos-datafile-pdcd5

Apr 30, 2016 10:22pm Steve Pampling (1551) 8172 posts	Yes. What was your question?

Apr 30, 2016 10:47pm Matt Price (2343) 71 posts	Just putting the info out there, for folks like me who didn’t know it been released.

May 1, 2016 7:30am Steve Pampling (1551) 8172 posts	There’s quite a bit in the Internet Archive if you dig a bit. The Wayback Machine will pull up copies of “mostly” complete old web pages and it offers a means of getting hold of some of the software available from now defunct web sites. “Mostly” because some of the saved pages have links that were set up in a way that the robotic save routine couldn’t follow.

May 1, 2016 8:45am Rick Murray (539) 13851 posts	And those who specifically instructed the robot not to follow. Consider how much useful stuff from a certain person has “mostly” vanished (I say mostly as even ftp archives got scrubbed, but if you have some old CD-ROMs…).

May 1, 2016 9:33am Steve Pampling (1551) 8172 posts	And those who specifically instructed the robot not to follow. I didn’t say how they came to have links that couldn’t be followed or why anyone did it. In some cases it was to force people to be looking at the most recent version rather than an old copy. This sort came back to bite when the people concerned moved on.

May 1, 2016 9:49am Malcolm Hussain-Gambles (1596) 811 posts	“certain person”, “people concerned”. Comedy gold.

May 1, 2016 10:17am Steve Pampling (1551) 8172 posts	“people concerned” Well, strangely enough I don’t think the APDL site was fully copied by the Wayback and Dave definitely “moved on”¹ which had the whole APDL repository missing until a bit of work was done to get things available again. Yes, I’m aware that Rick was referring to someone different. ¹ Hows that for a cross thread link?

May 1, 2016 7:58pm Chris Evans (457) 1614 posts	Well, strangely enough I don’t think the APDL site was fully copied by the Wayback It did have a very full copy up until last summer and then started reporting: “Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.” Apparently site owners can ask for their sites to be excluded!

May 1, 2016 8:07pm John Williams (567) 768 posts	It did have a very full copy up until last summer and then started reporting: “Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine.” So do we need a Wayback Machine backup invoked periodically, say monthly?