FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!
10 Years of old Apple II and Mac Usenet posts now online at Mac GUI Vault
Today, the Mac GUI Vault collection is excited to have expanded its Usenet archive to include a quarter of a million Usenet posts from the 80’s and early 90’s on the Apple II and Macintosh.
These posts are now online and fully searchable, and cover 35 newsgroups including: comp.binaries.apple2, comp.binaries.mac, net.micro.apple, net.micro.mac, comp.sys.apple, and comp.sys.mac. In addition, several
newsgroups including topics such as the Pascal language, CP/M, and microcomputers in general were included.Mac GUI Vault was fortunate to have acquired a copy of the UTZoo archive from the University of Western Ontario, which is the same source that provided the basis for Google Groups. However, Mac GUI Vault offers the following advantages over Google’s collection:
- All binary posts have been made available.
The binary posts are some of the most fascinating aspects of the Vault Usenet archive, as these newsgroups contain thousands of programs and source code listings which haven’t seen the light of day in literally 20 or
more years. Though Google indexed the binary posts from their archive donors, Google chose not to make any binary content available to the public.- No posts have been removed or hidden.
Google provides a way for users to manually remove selected posts from their archive, or to automatically remove all posts made by a single email address. While certainly not all of the thousands of removed posts would be of interest today, some might be. In light of that potential risk, Mac GUI Vault currently will not honor any requests to remove or alter any posts in its archive.
- No email addresses or other message content have been obfuscated.
With the overwhelming majority of email addresses from the past decade being no longer valid, obfuscating them as Google does makes no sense. Aside from being a bit of a distraction, not having the full email address
makes searches by author and email address more difficult.Mac GUI Vault is currently looking for more Apple II and Macintosh Usenet posts covering the early 1990’s and onward, and would welcome any donations. In addition, more newsgroups and posts from the UTZoo archive may be added later, covering more general computing areas outside of Apple Computer’s own products.
In addition to historic Apple II and Mac Usenet posts, Mac GUI Vault also maintains a growing archive of current posts from 2006 up to today. Anonymous users may freely read and search the discussions, while
registered users may post new threads and replies via a web interface.Mac GUI Vault’s Usenet Archive is available at the following URL:
A Frequently Asked Questions list on Mac GUI Vault’s Usenet Archive is available here:
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