alex_santos
Hi my name is Alex Santos, you can learn more about me on LinkedIn. I am was an avid Macintosh collector. I chose to cease further purchases of vintage computers due to the voluming of machines have reached levels that present maintenance challenges. Other than physical space limitations, I remain very enthusiastically so, a Macintosh fan!
A few years ago I began to develop an interest on the software side of computing and over time I began to purchase collections, between 30-100 discs. There was no personal interest in keeping these and no platform preference. The purpose of the purchases had one motive, to scan and image the discs followed by an upload to the internet archive(.org). As there were so many discs I contacted free range archivist, Jason Scott, who graciously provided me FTP access for data ingestion, from there it is processed by Jason and uploaded to the internet archive(.org). The queue rarely stops but happens in bursts.
As my interest in this area grew I began expanding on the idea and took influence from max1zzz and the Macintosh Garden's spirit of sharing old software (kudos to both of them). I took a slightly different angle however. Rather than mimic what the Garden does I instead took a digital archeology approach. I have a few scripts that scrape the waybackmachine(.org) for Mac specific files, including PDF filetypes. The goal is to download specific filetypes from old Mac sites from the waybackmachine. The goal is to download Mac files and PDFs that might be thought to have been lost.
You can learn more at https://buriedbits.org
A few years ago I began to develop an interest on the software side of computing and over time I began to purchase collections, between 30-100 discs. There was no personal interest in keeping these and no platform preference. The purpose of the purchases had one motive, to scan and image the discs followed by an upload to the internet archive(.org). As there were so many discs I contacted free range archivist, Jason Scott, who graciously provided me FTP access for data ingestion, from there it is processed by Jason and uploaded to the internet archive(.org). The queue rarely stops but happens in bursts.
As my interest in this area grew I began expanding on the idea and took influence from max1zzz and the Macintosh Garden's spirit of sharing old software (kudos to both of them). I took a slightly different angle however. Rather than mimic what the Garden does I instead took a digital archeology approach. I have a few scripts that scrape the waybackmachine(.org) for Mac specific files, including PDF filetypes. The goal is to download specific filetypes from old Mac sites from the waybackmachine. The goal is to download Mac files and PDFs that might be thought to have been lost.
You can learn more at https://buriedbits.org
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Alex Santos
Visit https://www.buriedbits.org - Using the waybackmachine as a landscape for Macintosh software archeology
Alex Santos
Visit https://www.buriedbits.org - Using the waybackmachine as a landscape for Macintosh software archeology
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`bash script ingests a text file or URLs`
`URLs download Macintosh files`
`files available to all at buriedbits.org`Following
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