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Bitsavers is a popular and widely used resource. However, it has become something of a victim of its own success. The site is noticably very slow. Therefore, I've written something of a load balancer. So if you're going to link to bitsavers please use the redirect.php script.

(''I'm not sure this is still necessary. Bitsavers has its own redirector now.'' [[User:Jnc|Jnc]] ([[User talk:Jnc|talk]]) 15:00, 22 October 2017 (CEST))

(I'll put some more meat on this article soon, so for now I'm just pasting in the documentation from the script verbatim)

 Usage: redirect.php?doc=(filename)&res=(resource)
 The parameters (Passed via HTTP GET) are:
 res
  Specifies the resource (currently, only "bitsavers" is valid)
 doc
  Specifies the file to be fetched, without the first slash.
  For example, in the case of $res=="bitsavers" and $doc=="dec/pdp11/1145/EK-KB11A-MM-004_Aug76.pdf",
  the script will redirect via the HTTP header "location" to 
   
   http://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/1145/EK-KB11A-MM-004_Aug76.pdf
 (Therefore, link to http://toresbe.dreamhosters.com/redirect.php?res=bitsavers&doc=''path to document''

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