Remember comp.sources.hp48?

[rprosperi]

(08-23-2017 10:32 PM)pier4r Wrote:  Yes! I mentioned the modern era because a lot of times I see people sad for the library of Alexandria without realizing that we may lose many of those every year due to digital sources lost or inaccessible (or wiped out by mistake).

For example there was a nice awk site once, that slowly was collecting libraries made in awk. Gone.

Another example. hpcalc.org for some reason gets wiped (dunno, we get really unlucky). Is there anyone making mirrors of it? If not, it would be lost.

For a short while, after his untimely death, Prof Rautenberg's site with HP49G/49G+/50g programs totally disappeared. I had bookmarked it of course, but we often take for granted that these resources will 'just be there' and it's shocking when they're not. As there were apparently lots of folks like me that were crushed to lose such a valuable site, it was restored somehow through the University in Berlin where he taught, and is available again.

If you are not familiar with his work and are a fan of RPL, definitely check out this site, and get copies of everything, for you never know if it will go away again...

http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/users/raut/WR49/index.htm