The 500 Hats of LambdaCalculusAug 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

Show threadJason LevineAug 30, 2023
@LambdaCalculus I presume you’ve read that UM had to literally disable its campus network connections to the internet this week due to a cybersecurity issue they’re not really talking about… which is to say, the original server might not be down, it might just be lonely on the disconnected campus network right now.
Show threadThe 500 Hats of LambdaCalculusAug 30, 2023

@delfuego I have read about the attack, but the original page had been hinting that the archives had been teetering to life and that U-M could pull the plug if no one stepped up to maintain the archive.

So rather than sit back and let it potentially disappear one day, I decided to take action and save it all.

Show threadJason LevineAug 30, 2023
@LambdaCalculus Hell yeah! To be clear, I wasn't questioning the value of getting it all up into the IA, I was just hopeful that maybe the OG server was just down because of the cyber attack, and not permanently.
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@delfuego Hopefully it's not permanently, but better safe than sorry.
Aug 30, 2023 at 1:13pmWeb