Computer Listing

From: Bill Whitson <bill_at_booster.bothell.washington.edu>
Date: Fri Mar 21 11:00:07 1997

> > If you feel that a seperate list is
> > still a good idea, BMG, but I'd like to see a list of "history" Web
> > sites and how good you think they are.

The links section on the CCL web page is growing daily and will start
to be commented before long. If any of you know of good sites - let
me know and I'll add those too.

> Firstly, the various web sites are all in different formats, making it
> difficult to make comparisons. Perhaps you cannot even find the
> information you are interested in. If we make our own list, we can decide
> together what information we need and put it together in a standardized
> way. This would also facilitate sorting. Say that I want to know what
> micros with at least 64K RAM existed before the C64 was released. I wish
> you good luck if you want to hunt this information down on the web sites
> and present it in a uniform fashion.

Also, having a nice complete list can be an asset to people doing history
sites / nostalgia sites on these computers. Rather than being in
competition with existing information I see a list as a way to help
bring the whole WWW mess together.

> Thirdly (and in my opinion most importantly) you can never say for sure
> what web sites are still there tomorrow. Maintainers move and take their
> pages with them, or they may decide that they no longer have the time or
> resources to keep it up, or the archives may be reorganized and all links
> end up in void, or an ISP may go belly-up, or...

And after all, this is a University Job I've got so even if I leave
I can probably shove the whole thing onto some student :))

Regardless of mertit, the list almost ready to get going ;). Dan
Tucker (of this list) has done some great html work and I think the
result will be much more useful that what I first envisioned. Every-
body say "Thanks, Dan!"

I'll post again when thigs are ready to go.

Bill Whitson
ClassicCmp "owner"
bcw_at_u.washington.edu bill_at_booster.u.washington.edu
Received on Fri Mar 21 1997 - 11:00:07 GMT