Re: Re: BBS ready CDs
  By: Sean Dennis to Sam Alexander on Thu Jun 01 2006 12:38 am

 > Sam,
 > 
 >  SA> I remember there used to be collections of CD's folks would buy with TO
 >  SA> of shareware, but is this even practical anymore?  The files I enjoy
 >  SA> downloading are like the Nasa/astronomy photos,
 >  SA> newsletters/text files, etc
 >  SA> from board, not shareware.  How often does someone
 >  SA> download 5-10+ year old
 >  SA> shareware anymore?
 > 
 >  SA> Just curious --
 > 
 > More often than you might think, especially with OS/2 stuff.  Some things yo
 > just can't find anymore and you like what you like.  Besides, not everything
 > that was on there was shareware.  I have a lot of older ham radio-related fi
 > that are still meaningful, even ten years later.  I probably have 50GB+ of
 > files on DVD, CD and tape.  I've got a spare 60GB drive.  If/when I upgrade 
 > BBS, I'll have to put all of them online.
 > 

I guess I didn't think of things like OS/2 and other platforms... also ham 
radio stuff I"d love to take a gander at, specially since I'm just now 
getting into this wonderful hobby (day late and dollar short it seems).

I was always surprised more folks didn't use BBSes for file transfer since 
WWW just seems like a oddball way of doing files.  FTP is better, but 
still, BBSes have much more info available and features then FTP even.

Anywhoo, totally valid points :)  Thanks --

Sam

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