Posted by Jock on October 24, 2007 at 13:18:35 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Swallows and Amazons - now Archive posted by Owen Roberts on October 24, 2007 at 11:30:59:
Owen, the archive that you have provided a link to is one of a number of archive copies of the old TARS pages maintained by the The Internet Archive, a non-profit [organisation] that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format.
The problem with this sort of automatic archive is that as you link down through the archive you eventually get to links that don't work properly. For example the text of Sailing by E.F. Knight can be accessed, but not all the drawings, although these were originally available on-line.
The link provided by John Giddy was to part of the official TARS archive of its original web pages. Peter H originally advised us of its existence, but annoyingly it was shortly afterwards put behind a password protected door. The official archive was jolly useful because it was ALL there, although it needed a bit of dead reckoning navigation when following the links.
Now the official site is again available to us ordinary TarBoarders, and my humblest apologies to TARS, it is ALL there. I was wrong! If you try following a link and get served a The item you requested does not exist on this server or cannot be served error don't panic. Just replace the "www" with "archive" in the address line hit "Enter" and - hey presto - it works!