Dr. D.’s ADAM/ColecoVision webpages are all gone (for the moment)

[Dr. D.]

Hi folks, due to a networking policy change at my university (from “allow everything except what we block” to “block everything except what we allow”, in the interests of “security”), my personal webservers drushel.cwru.edu and rinette.cwru.edu are no longer visible to the outside world. My exemption request was denied, ostensibly because the machines are vintage PPC Macs and thus “unsupported”, although there is currently a strong sentiment in IT to get rid of all personal servers and wikis.

 

So, effective yesterday morning (2016.08.18), none of the ADAM, ColecoVision, ADAMcon, etc. material that was hosted on drushel or rinette is available live on the net anymore. No doubt Google will cache things for awhile, and the Wayback Machine might have captured some snapshots over the years.

 

My next step is to get a new Mac Mini to replace drushel (then they can’t say the machine is old and “unsupported”) and reapply for an exemption. If IT still says no, then I will have to find some other option; but of course that means that 20 years of accumulated references to drushel links will become dead, with no way to redirect. (rinette is recent and only a little bit of stuff is there.) I would probably have to create some master index.html at the new host and seed it here so that search engines could find it and then crawl it, plus go through Wikipedia and manually fix some links that I know about (for the ADAM and some NASA things I have done).

 

So, your patience is requested if you are trying to find my stuff online. I will post updates when available.

 

*Dr. D.*

 

[Pixelboy]

Thanks for the info, Dr. D.

[Rey]

Appreciate the update Doc.

[Milli V]

If you need a host I can host it under Smartbasic.net (have my pages there and also have http://wiki.smartbasic.netthere too ) - I have my own servers - its what I do for a living

 

Milli