zip (was: Re: Disk archival techniques)

[Randy McLaughlin]

From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:12 PM


> >From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
>>
>>On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>>
>>>  In any case, these are all academic in comparison to the problems
>>> of indexing. I don't even have the beginings of how to deal
>>> with that problem.
>>
>>Google :)
>>
>
> Hi
> It works surprisingly well but it still misses a lot.
> Like when I was looking for the data sheets of the WD1100V-01.
> The information was out there, it just wasn't indexed.
> Most document writing programs today have that automatic
> indexing by marking things as you go along to place in
> the index. It requires that someone actually realizes
> what needs to be indexed. Then comes the problem of cross
> references. Add to that synonyms.
> I was looking through the directories of one of the images
> I'd captured from the Polymorphic stuff and found that
> a disk labeled "GAMES" contained a version of Forth.
> That may have been the persons personal feelings
> about it but it was not good indexing.
> My guess is that Google is missing 90 to 95% of the
> relevant information out there. If you include site links
> on individual pages that improves to about 85% at best.
> Now, add to that the problem of something that exist
> but gets somehow placed in the wrong place.
> Indexing will be the biggest challenge!
> Dwight


Amen, when the SMC link to the chips was posted I downloaded a copy.  I was 
also interested in the other chips in the same set (1010,2010, etc).

I decided to check bitsavers and there they were (thanks Al), all in the 
westerndigital folder as databooks, etc.  Several megabytes later I had what 
I wanted.

On a separate post I mentioned cross support/cross linking.  It was my 
clumsy way of saying indexing.  I would be nice if people pitched in and 
just did it.  I may make a list of all of the chips listed in the individual 
PDF's that Al has posted for the westerndigital datasheets.  If Al then 
posts this index with the PDF's (or creates an index folder) so the 
googlebot can scan it then a google search would point you where to get it.

Simple with the task easily shared amoung many people.


Randy
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