From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: mparson@bl.org (Michael Parson) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 21:01:19 -0500 (CDT) Subject: [TUHS] Old Usenet newsreader source code? In-Reply-To: References: <1525796737.680198.1365037152.60B79FDC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20180508163643.GA16384@mcvoy.com> <201805081706.w48H62gd027214@freefriends.org> <1525802016.2020176.1365125208.2706032F@webmail.messagingengine.com> <990f91e8-01c0-cf25-4889-43e1580398ef@kilonet.net> <8120ea75-3573-0931-bf35-f18bf2e4c9f3@kilonet.net> Message-ID: On Tue, 8 May 2018, Henry Bent wrote: > On 8 May 2018 at 18:32, Arthur Krewat wrote: >> On 5/8/2018 6:22 PM, Henry Bent wrote: >> >>> My father was the sysadmin for Deja News at the time they were >>> bought by Google. I was told that the "buyout" consisted of some >>> Google folks showing up with a rack of drives, dumping all of Deja >>> News's data over a weekend, and then flying back out to Mountain >>> View. >> >> Where are the original drives? Or tapes? (insert devilish grin >> emoticon here) >> >> ak > > I have no idea where they are now. At the time they were in Austin, > TX. I imagine that they probably just went to one of those many IT > scrapyards, the warehouses full of old parts that the owners sell on > eBay. It was all auctioned off. I went to that auction... it was the dot-com bust auction where I saw things turn from being able to get a good deal to a lot of stupid going on. I bought two boxes full of SCSI hard drives for $79/ea. Turns out, it was about 20 drives and they were mostly 4 and 9 gig Seagate HD's that still had a year or two left on their warranty. I turned around and re-sold them, untested, but with a copy of the warranty status for each one with it, for something like $5 or 10/gig. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ