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Welcome to Floodgap Systems' WWW server
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My name is Cameron Kaiser, and I host Floodgap as my personal repository for information technology research, historical computing research, and open source software (especially for retrocomputing and information retrieval technologies), non-technical historical collections and exhibits, and as a testbed for multiple hardware and networking projects. I hope you'll find Floodgap as fun and useful as it is to maintain.
Among the services offered, I'm particularly proud of Floodgap's retrocomputing and classic technology archive. I personally collect and support a diverse group of computers and peripherals of all kinds from the early 1970s to today, from simple early computers and training boards like the Commodore KIM-1, to video game systems like the Intellivision and Atari 2600, to home computers like the Tomy Tutor, Commodore 64 and Apple II, and all the way up to large enterprise workstations and server systems. Volunteer contributors have yielded immense historical information, such as the unique Commodore "secret weapons" from the company that was once practically synonymous with home computers, and Floodgap-maintained exhibits have appeared at multiple computer shows and gatherings, including the Vintage Computer Festival in San Jose, Calif. and others. My particular aim is not only keeping these systems operating, but also doing useful work, such as the multiple 68K-based Macintoshes running critical portions of the internal backbone, or the software offered for these systems, such as an open source 6502 cross assembler, or a
Floodgap also houses a significant amount of archival and historical information technology resources. Here at Floodgap, I host an extensive Gopherspace area, a unique, fast and useful pre-Web information exchange protocol, itemizing Gopher servers still in operation, offering client and server software and support, and maintaining the currently only operational Veronica gopher search engine in the world. To allow Gopher support even in browsers that don't support it, there's even Gopher->HTTP proxy support. I'm also proud of my fully functional Web recreation of the HyTELNET search system, an early and noteworthy attempt at unifying terminal-based search resources before the advent of the Web. I also research WAIS and other search technologies, classic multi-user operating systems, and experiment on scaling large enterprise-level tasks down to allow low-power computing systems to contribute as well as coexist.
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