Date   : Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:25:37 +0100
From   : christopher.whytehead@... (chris whytehead)
Subject: The Micro User

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> And incidentally, anyone running BBC/Electron-related web
> projects are welcome
> (and encouraged to) apply for a subdomain, [free] hosting with php/mysql
> capabilities etc.

I currently have some 650 MB in some 3,500 html, jpg and pdf files in
Chris's Acorns (I suspect the total when I catch up with my collection will
be in excess of 1.5GB)

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> As I mentioned some time back, I'd be quite happy to "phase-out"
> STH and move
> all the [useful] content to the bbcmicro.com domain. It would be
> nice if we
> could also perhaps incorporate selected content from BBCDocs.com and other
> resource pages (Chris W? Jon H?) as well as [defunct] sites, such
> as 8BS & BBC Lives*.
>
> * = which would obviously require Robert's/Chris R's blessing

Chris's Acorns documents my collection and as such I will continue
developing it. My main interest is hardware and the related documentation
and software, rather than games or applications. While I have a lot of
Aconsoft software I have no plans to add it to Chris's Acorns especially as
STH does it so much better.:-)

However I have no issue with links to/from bbcmicro.com or bbcmicro.com
hosting copies of some or all my files/documents. Indeed having looked at
WoS I think the Acorn equivalent would be a great achievement and I would
like to participate in creating it.

One thing I picked up on the WoS was their approach to copyright for
downloadable software (http://www.worldofspectrum.org/permits/ ) I don't
know if anyone is collecting permissions from copyright holders, but if not
then we ought to start doing so.

Chris
--
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