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* '''Bitsavers re-organization, and External links here''' - The file hierarchy at [[Bitsavers]] has undergone some re-organization (particularly for [[UNIBUS]] and [[QBUS]] items). So, many of our 'External links' links which go to Bitsavers are no longer working. I am checking through [[Special:LinkSearch|External links search]], and will track them all down and update them - but it will probably take a while (we have a ''lot'' of Bitsavers links). | |||
: Linking to Bitsavers is still, I feel, to be preferred over the use of other external sources for documents, because Bitsavers is associated with the [[Computer History Museum]], which is a fairly substantial institution, and thus less likely to vanish with no warning (as [https://manx-docs.org/collections/antonio/ Antonio's collection at Manx] did - something else I need to clean up). So, if there is a choice between two copies of something, one on a personal site, and the other on Bitsavers, the one on Bitsavers should ''always'' be preferred, I reckon. | |||
* '''Downtime''' - Unfortunately, I was hospitalized with severe health issues just as this site was having some major difficulties. I am very sorry that it's taken this long and that I've been so bad at communicating - but now a lot of technical debt has been paid down, and I am beginning a dialog to work out how to ensure the site is not so dependent on me so this doesn't happen again. -- [[User:Toresbe|Tore]] ([[User talk:Toresbe|talk]]) 00:21, 2 September 2026 (UTC) | * '''Downtime''' - Unfortunately, I was hospitalized with severe health issues just as this site was having some major difficulties. I am very sorry that it's taken this long and that I've been so bad at communicating - but now a lot of technical debt has been paid down, and I am beginning a dialog to work out how to ensure the site is not so dependent on me so this doesn't happen again. -- [[User:Toresbe|Tore]] ([[User talk:Toresbe|talk]]) 00:21, 2 September 2026 (UTC) | ||
''Older news is [[Computer History Wiki:Older News|here]].'' | ''Older news is [[Computer History Wiki:Older News|here]].'' | ||
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Revision as of 22:03, 2 October 2026
- Bitsavers re-organization, and External links here - The file hierarchy at Bitsavers has undergone some re-organization (particularly for UNIBUS and QBUS items). So, many of our 'External links' links which go to Bitsavers are no longer working. I am checking through External links search, and will track them all down and update them - but it will probably take a while (we have a lot of Bitsavers links).
- Linking to Bitsavers is still, I feel, to be preferred over the use of other external sources for documents, because Bitsavers is associated with the Computer History Museum, which is a fairly substantial institution, and thus less likely to vanish with no warning (as Antonio's collection at Manx did - something else I need to clean up). So, if there is a choice between two copies of something, one on a personal site, and the other on Bitsavers, the one on Bitsavers should always be preferred, I reckon.
- Downtime - Unfortunately, I was hospitalized with severe health issues just as this site was having some major difficulties. I am very sorry that it's taken this long and that I've been so bad at communicating - but now a lot of technical debt has been paid down, and I am beginning a dialog to work out how to ensure the site is not so dependent on me so this doesn't happen again. -- Tore (talk) 00:21, 2 September 2026 (UTC)
Older news is here.
