Remember comp.sources.hp48?

[Eric Rechlin]

(08-24-2017 07:04 PM)pier4r Wrote:  What about MoHPC and comp.sys.hp48 ?

I have archived comp.sys.hp48 (almost 230,000 posts since 1991!) and that will be included on the conference USB drive as well, and it would also be provided in my torrent (it's only a 72MB 7z file!). I took this week off work, in part to get this stuff done, and I just now finished a very rudimentary front-end to access the plain-text posts. I know Google Groups has this, but their interface has gotten so bad that it's almost unusable. Here are a couple screenshots of what I have so far:





Looking at the above makes me really miss the old days when people usually used their real names online instead of impersonal pseudonyms!

As far as MoHPC, unfortunately I can provide no good solution there. It's unfortunate that the calculator discussion has largely moved over to a proprietary forum run by an individual rather than the open network (Usenet) where it used to happen, but that's basically the way the whole Internet is going now (where semi-decentralized open systems like SMTP/email, Usenet, and IRC are being replaced with web mail like Facebook messages, web forums, and web chat like Discord and Slack, respectively, all run by private corporations, not interoperable with other systems, and subject to the whims and monetization strategies of the companies running them).

It would be really nice if Dave at the very least imported all the old forum's messages into the new forum, but since he hasn't had the time to do that after nearly 4 years I'd be surprised if he'd take the time to make something in a format we can download for permanent archival.