Websites lost, websites reconstructed

It’s been true for a long time that a link, or a whole website, can cease to be valid at some point - maybe the domain expired, or the data was lost, or the owner decided to take it away.

Two recent cases in point:

Spare Time Gizmos, run by Bob Armstrong, was retired by the owner, but now is (mostly) reconstructed by Bob Kuczewski:

Retrobrew Computers was both a forum and a repository for projects, and seems to have failed some time this year. The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has got some but not all of the content:

In both cases, if anyone has any downloaded files or cached data, it might prove useful to check if yours is the only remaining copy.

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Ah, the SBC6120 site. I think it is used and mirrored at several PDP-8 sites. I think also for thePidP8.

Looks like retrobrewcomputers.org is back!

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That’s great news! I hope for the best.

more importantly, the RetroBrew Computers Forum is back. Post your projects there to make it worth the admin’s time to keep the site alive.

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Excellent idea. It had been very quiet for some time…
-G

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