Subject: PDP-8 archive update

From: [email-masked] (Charles Lasner)
Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 06:22:26 GMT

The archives of alt.sys.pdp8 are now available via anonymous ftp from
sunsite.unc.edu.  They are available in the form of monthly files starting
from September, 1992 through the present.  (May 1993 will be included shortly.)

The current directory for the a.s.p archives is:

/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-8/usenet/alt.sys.pdp8

Filenames are of the form: yymm.asp where yy is 92, 93 and mm is 01 for 
January through 12 for December.  A 00-index file is provided in this and
each pdp-8 directory to explain the corresponding contents, etc.

It appears that some sites (primarily in Australia) are actually participating
in a "split" of alt.sys.pdp8 where most of their traffic and the mainstream
of a.s.p are never joined.  Efforts to rejoin these sites with the main feed
are ongoing; we may have to archive the Australian feed eventually.  (There
are far fewer articles there than on the main feed.)

cjl