Subj : Re: Re: The Commodore Products Source List has a new home To : Nerd Kev From : RJLong Date : Sat May 04 2019 08:53 pm On Sun, 5 May 2019 00:46:42 +0000 (UTC), not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) wrote: >RJLong wrote: >> Earlier this year, I moved the Commodore Products Source List over to a >> wiki located at cbm-products.fandom.com. The old website may or may not >> stay online, but it's not going to be updated any more. Google already >> picked up the new address, but not Bing. >> >> By moving to a wiki, it solves a bottleneck that's existed for a very long >> time. Entries can now be updated by anyone, not just me. > >Interesting, I've found some new (old) sites there already. By only >indexing websites by their names in the hardware and software >categories, it does make it tricky to find anything specific though. > >> At present, the bulk of the information still focuses on Commodore 64/128 >> products but I've set it up to allow for expansion into Amiga products. >> Newsletters from the clubs I was involved in are not yet online. I can >> easily scan in the paper copies, but for the issues I was the editor on, >> I'd like to try re-printing them directly into PDF files. Newsletters from >> other clubs should be added in the future once I dig those back up. > >Perhaps you could upload them at www.archive.org, then provide links >to there on your Wiki. They automatically do OCR on documents to turn >them into PDFs which can be searched within. You might have to upload >them in just the right way for that to work though. That's a good idea for the newsletters. Occasionally I have access to that same kind of process where I work, but not on a regular basis, though. The List used to be mailed out as a paper copy so it wasn't possible to include everything. It was just me doing the research, so I didn't have the money or resources to pick up where Tenex's "Everything Book" left off. Now with the wiki, we can put in as much as we want. I've already got links to a few items like the SuperCPU ready for people to add info. The template that sets the type of product can be updated for more choices, or we can manually add the categories we need at the bottom of the page. So for the page on the SuperCPU, the Infobox could keep the "Hardware" product type and auto-include a Hardware category, but we could add [[Category:Accelerators]] at the bottom. Or we make new Infoboxes that fit each type of product. It's a work in progress and we can refine and expand it as we go. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3) .