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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hello Kurt,   
      
   Thursday January 27 2022 07:09, you wrote to me:   
      
    KW> I keep around some of the old P/H/A/C files, t-files from a couple of   
    KW> groups   
    KW> I knew, and zines from the 90s, but it feels pointless to add anything   
    KW> new to them, since you can find most anything on the internet.   
      
   Understand that.  I have about 30 shareware CDs, including Simtel's "10,000   
   DOS Shareware Programs" and several OS/2-specific CDs.  I have Pete Norloff's   
   OS2BBS.com filebase which is about 13GB of everything OS/2 including some very   
   rare files.  I now have a full mirror of Janis Kracht's former website which   
   is around 30GB.   
      
   It's all in cold storage on a hard drive and when I finally get a LTO-4 tape   
   drive I've been promised, it's all going on a tape into a media safe in my   
   storage room until needed.   
      
   I agree with your thought about adding anything new to a filebase unless it's   
   something you specialize in.   
      
   In the 25 or so years I have been running a BBS, I have rarely had anyone   
   download any files except for my Cheepware software and network files (meaning   
   nodelists from various networks, the filegate info, et cetera) so I just   
   cannot see a need to be a file hoarder anymore.   
      
   The exception to the rule was the mirror of filegate.net because of the large   
   file archives that site had; it would have been a shame to lose all of those   
   files and work.   
      
   Perhaps, when I can afford a 8TB drive, I might offer those large file   
   archives for throttled download.   
      
   -- Sean   
      
   ... The motor will rotate in the wrong direction.   
   --- GoldED/2 3.0.1   
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