Re: The future of the CBM and CP/M file archives at FUNET

From: Ruediger Schuldes (schuldes_at_itsm.uni-stuttgart.de)
Date: 2005-06-15 16:19:05

Hello,

respect for all these work! I think Bo is the correct one to make it in 
the future. I hope that we are supported still for a very long time by 
this website!

Best regards

Ruediger
http://www.cbmmanuals1.de
http://www.classic-computing.de


Marko Mäkelä schrieb:
> The Commodore file archive at ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/cbm/ (later also
> http://www.funet.fi/pub/cbm/) was started a bit over 12 years ago, in
> the summer of 1993, as the successor of the Commodore file archive run
> by Robert A. Knop Jr. at ccosun.caltech.edu.  The CP/M archive at
> /pub/cpm may have been started some time later.  In the beginning,
> there were several maintainers, but in the last few years, there was
> only me, Marko Makela.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have not had enough time to maintain the archive for
> several years now, and the situation is not likely to improve soon.
> It was much easier to find time for projects like this as a student.
> 
> Therefore, I have asked Bo Zimmerman to continue the work.
> The new home of the CBM and CP/M file archives is at
> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/
> http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cpm/
> 
> The /pub/cbm and /pub/cpm archives at FUNET and their mirror sites
> will probably be frozen in their current state, or they may disappear.
> 
> I would like to express my thanks to everyone who has contributed
> documents and files to the archive.  It is a sad moment to give up the
> project, but I believe that it will benefit from having fresh
> maintainers.
> 
> 	Marko
> 
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