Mastodawn

The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus Aug 30, 2023

Just uploaded a (hopefully!) complete mirror of the University of Michigan's old software archives to the Internet Archive, as the original server seems to have finally gone down.

The U-M Archive contained software for Atari computers (8-bit, ST, TT, and Falcon), Apple II computers, classic Mac OS, DOS, and Unix X11 software, but its draw was software for Apollo graphical workstations, which everyone can read about here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer

The entire archive is currently up at the Internet Archive as one huge tar.gz archive, and I'll be uploading the entire collection uncompressed for anyone who wants to browse it easier.

https://archive.org/details/u-mich-archives

Apollo Computer - Wikipedia

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Dan Oachs

@LambdaCalculus Did the original servers go down, or is it because of this... https://umich.edu/announcements/

Still a good thing either way :)

University of Michigan

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Ed W8EMV

Aug 30, 2023

@doachs @LambdaCalculus

Yeah, UMich networks have had a few bad days (#goblue #hugops). A lot of the network is offline which is somewhat inconvenient to say the least on the first week of classes.

The Michigan Daily has the story

https://www.michigandaily.com/news/massive-wifi-outage-at-umich-affects-all-three-u-m-campuses/

Massive IT outage continues to affect all three UMich campuses

Online services including wifi are out on all three campuses at the University of Michigan as of Sunday afternoon.

The Michigan Daily

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The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculus Aug 30, 2023

@w8emv @doachs There have been hints thrown around as well that U of Mich doesn't seem to be too concerned in keeping this archive around:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230103183151/http://websites.umich.edu/~archive/

Either way, it's better to have saved it before all this happened than find out later that someone decided to yank it offline for good without it having been mirrored.