While trying to figure out how to reach more PDP-11 users with my
freeware archives
(immodest plug: See
http://www.trailing-edge.com/www/freeware.html
for information about the PDP-11 freeware CD's and FTP sites with
PDP-11 freeware)
it occured to me that I've only been using two methods of announcing
availability: this (Classiccmp) mailing list and Usenet newsgroups
specific to PDP-11's.
It's obvious that these methods of reaching classic computer
users hit only a small fraction of active PDP-11 users.
There's what, maybe a couple of dozen frequent participants in this
mailing list, and the number of regular posters on vmsnet.pdp-11 can
be counted on two hands.
Is there a better way of reaching a wider audience of classic computer
users? In particular, folks who don't read technical Usenet discussion
groups and who haven't happened upon this specific mailing list.
Or, even in this "connected" world that we live in, is there no better
way of reaching what I know is a very broad base of classic computer
users out there?
One idea that has crossed my mind, but I don't know if there's any way
to pull it off: There are obviously lots of "collectors" on E-bay who have
little connection with our reality of using classic computers. Is there
no way at all of reaching these folks? I don't mean preaching to them,
but at least tying them together into a broader knowledge base than the
wheeling and dealing on E-bay.
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Received on Sat Oct 16 1999 - 09:03:41 BST