if you do find this archive i can upload it to ftp.whtech.com lmk
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 5:37 PM Mike Stein <mhs.st...@gmail.com> wrote: > Merch's phone number is out there and there's a reference dated July 2020 > so he's probably still around; why not call & see. > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 7:22 PM Jesse Lafleur <jesslafl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> really irks me when people respond like that.... we're talking about >> history that is literally disappearing before our eyes and some people who >> claim to be fans or preservers or what have you - just cannot be bothered >> and it is infuriating and really sad. >> >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 7:17 PM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Does anyone have a copy of Roger Merchberger's Tandy 600 files archive? >>> http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/cctalk/1998-November/0437.html >>> >>> There is a 600 directory in the M100SIG but it's missing the HHOS >>> directory that apparently had these development tools: >>> >>> https://archive.org/details/Microsoft_Works_Utility_Disk_for_Model_600_1986_Tandy >>> >>> >>> Thomas McLaren apparently has them but for some reason he's not sharing. >>> His response to my email requesting them was only: >>> >>> "as of about two years ago, it was possible to piece it back together >>> from Tandy 600 file archive sites" >>> >>> Without mentioning the names any such archives, and he never even >>> responded to my follow up question. >>> >>> I have been unable to find these files anywhere. All I ever found was >>> dead links and references like that post above, and very few of those. >>> In archive.org I once found an old snapshot of a web page that had a >>> link to an HHOS directory, but the directory itself was not captured, >>> just the index page showing that it existed. >>> >>> The few links that are archived, point to ftp sites not web sites, and >>> those are not archived anywhere. >>> >>> For instance: >>> >>> https://web.archive.org/web/19991004190900/http://www.nyx.net/%7Elekollar/t600/ >>> >>> ..links to ftp.northernway.net/Tandy600 >>> >>> >>> This is the closest I've ever been able to come: >>> >>> http://web.archive.org/web/20040929172841/http://www.30below.com/~zmerch/classics/Tandy600/ >>> >>> Neither the hhos directory nor the !T6Archive.tgz file are really there, >>> nor "t600.uue" which could have been anything but at over 650k it could >>> possibly be a uuencoded disk image or zip. >>> >>> Did anyone download a copy of that Tandy600 directory when it was up? Or >>> knows the vip club members only super sekrit location where they are >>> still up? >>> >>> -- >>> bkw >>> >>
