[NTLK] Looking for volunteers to go through a pile of Newton software

[Victor Rehorst]

Wow, browsing through the listing on MEGA while downloading the ZIP 
file, and to my eye there is a lot of unique software and information 
here to preserve.  Thank you so much.  And don't feel bad, archiving can 
sometimes get away from you, thankfully you got this data off of CD-R 
before they succumbed to bit rot.

-V

On 2025-05-12 22:49, Vladislav Korotnev wrote:
> OK, I see everyone is having trouble with MEGA when using it to download the whole folder in bulk.
>
> Let me upload it to my own home server as a single ZIP. I thought people would wanna go through it one by one hence the choice of file storage since MEGA is free.
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> Get it from here instead: https://genjit.su/staff-only/tmp/newton.zip (5.8 GB)
>
> MEGA’s web UI sure takes the piss when using it on anything older than a computer from 2-3 months ago indeed.
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> Once someone mirrors this please let me know.
>
> // Ak.R.
>
> iOS/Mac/Windows & Web developer
> Vaporwave/ambient producer, sound/video engineer
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> Genjitsu Gadget Lab Member 001
> http://genjit.su
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>> On May 13, 2025, at 10:27, Larry Yaeger <larry.yaeger at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On May 12, 2025, at 9:51 AM, Vladislav Korotnev <vladkorotnev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> About 10-13 years or so ago, I have received a bulk of Newton data from the Apple Museum in Moscow.
>>>
>>> Among other things they seem to have been donated a lot of CDs (and CD-Rs) for the Newton. This includes, but is not limited to, things such as the Russian language patches for NewtonOS which I haven’t yet seen on UNNA and the like.
>>> ...
>>> The folder is here: https://mega.nz/folder/4QJxhR5Y#9rYITzur39ikVt1WyBTEbQ — 28900 files across 4831 folders
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>> On May 12, 2025, at 5:45 PM, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk <newtontalk at newtontalk.net> wrote:
>>> The download got to 92% and then the site told me I was “over quota”.
>>> ...
>>> Someone else will have to grab this.
>> Well, I intended to write saying I'd downloaded everything and made it available at <insert link here>.  But Mega is behaving terribly.  I have an up-to-date account because I occasionaly get some benefit from it, but today, after starting off at a nice, reasonable 50MBps (yes, B, not b), it launched into a nice demonstration of Zeno's paradox, with progress diminishing to zero near the end, and there it still sits.  I tried it from a different account and got the same result except while I wasn't looking the little download window went away, as if it had finished, but there are no new files in Downloads, Desktop, or anywhere I can find, and Mega doesn't have a record of me having downloaded anything in its logs.  Sheesh.
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>> I'm trying now to download it in JDownloader2, but it's hung there as well.  Actually, I just increased the number of chunks per download and the number of downloads per host and have at least temporarily tickled it back into activity.  Fingers crossed.
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>> I have one other idea which is to have Mega copy the data to my Mega account, so at least there's hope of retrieving it eventually.
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>> Anywho, I'm trying.
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>> - larryy
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>> P.S. JDownloader2 alerted me to some missing files that will likely be an issue even if the download works.  The NewtDraw.pkg, NCU Installieren.pkg, and Archive.sit appear to be missing one or two pieces each.  (<name>.0 and in one case also <name>.1)
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