So, the UK Mirror Service is coming to an end. A sad day for Lancaster University and the University of Kent, and the end of an era. I remember the mirror service in various incarnations through the years.
When I first went to university in 1992, I was a fan of HENSA as a source of software for my Amiga. Back then, there was no shiny web interface. It was all FTP, and files on HENSA tended to be broken into convenient 1.44mb chunks for easily fitting on floppy disks.
Sad to see it go. Can't wait to see what replaces it.
Posted by savs at April 13, 2004 5:39 PMI hear they got pulled cos of cost. They will be replaced; it'll probably still be called mirror. I hope that they are as universally accessible in the future though :/
BTW, not to pedant your rose-tinted glasses, but 1.44Mb chunks were extremely inconvenient on the Miggy, because disks could only hold 880k. They were also extremely difficult to upgrade to HD, due to the way the disk subsystem worked. You could get a slow and crap 1.76Mb drive from Power, or various home-brew mods. Of course, the inverse was also true - Miggy disks are all but unreadable on almost any other machine.
(Unless of course you were a posh a4k owner ;)
Posted by: Alex Hudson at April 13, 2004 7:52 PM