On Sun, 16 Apr 1995 15:57:49 -0700 Marty - Indreboe said:
>Jim responded about a product info data base...
>As a service to its members, INTEREX should maintain an Electonic list.
>This could be in a web page, etc.
>The trick is what to keep and what to charge.
 
[...snip...]
 
Well, if I had the cycles and hardware I would volunteer to maintain some
additional resources (other than hp3000-l) here.  However, current machines
are spoken for in terms of gopher and Web support, and "opus" (the unofficial
FTP site) is only a 386 PC.  We are actively running gopher on our admin
system and have plans for web, and the academic system has a fairly extensive
Web offering from our library.  There's plenty of storage (several gigabytes
of surplus 7933s, 7937s, and the like) but Web-like services eat a measurable
amount of CPU (unlike hp3000-l, as I stated at IPROF, which is nominal, and
not on our HP machines anyway at present).
 
>In case you can not tell, I agree with Stan's point (somewhat)
>about Interex's bias becasue it charges.  We the user
>community (I represent a vendor too), could use a list.
 
I concur, but I will have to salute Interex for providing more "public"
services now than in the past.  Limited access to the CSL (I think) and
other services are now provided which is a big plus.  But there is no common
ground for "free" hp3000 information/software/etc like other platforms (the
abundance of anonymous ftp/gopher/web info for Un*x, Windows, DOS, Macs, and
9000 software <Internetworks>).
 
I guess part of my point is that once you have an Internet connection with
one of the aforementioned boxes, you can go grab software goodies for free
which in turn lead to more software goodies.  With the 3000, there is no
such clear path (although jazz.external.hp.com is the closest effort yet,
and is worthy of extensive praise!).
 
[\] Jeff Kell, [log in to unmask]