Here you can select a link to a mirror of the Total Hardware 1999 collection. There are many different "versions". By "versions", I mean different repackagings. Some are compressed using GNU's gzip, others using GNU's bzip2, one is in RAR. All of them have the same basic information, but require different software to decompress them. Some kind souls have even set up uncompressed mirrors so that they can cut down on bandwidth usage (you shouldn't need to download 10MB in order to get one 5K file) and so that you can cut down downloading.
On the following page, some of the URLs are not links. These are hosts that do not seem to be working as of April 22, 2003. The other URLs should still work. Please note the red warning a little ways down this page about my non-control over the upness of some of these servers. I only have minor control over the opensource.cis.ohio-state.edu and www.osuweb.net links. These are hosts where I have accounts. The others are managed and owned by other people. I just link to them.
The following little grey bit is a bit outdated. I'm not going to post a CD image (unless, I suppose, it's highly requested). If you want it on CD, get th99.rar or th99.tar.bz2 (this one's a bit easier to use, but larger) and put it on a CD the way you'd like. The file th99.tar.bz2 should work well, except for six broken links which I discussed in a news item on the front page (see the Old News link at the top of the page). Those, I can't fix. Sorry :-(.
The RAR'ed version is from one extremely kind guy who responded to my asking for a full version*. I'm currently working on getting a CD-ROM image made out of that that you can download, decompress, write to a CD, and use as if you were using it online. This is time-consuming because I have to make sure that I can use it from the two different OS's to which I have access (Linux and Windows). As Linux is case-sensitive, like most (all?), UNIXes, and some of the files are named differently than their links in the HTML, sometimes the browser will throw an error and say "Gak! I can't find that!" (well, okay, it's more technical than that, but you get the idea) when, really, the file is there, just named differently (for instance, Motherboard.html versus motherboard.html). Unfortunately (fortunately?) Windows does not have this requirement, so it will happily work. Oh well. I still prefer Linux :-).
Whoops! The "I still prefer Linux" part isn't outdated!
Please note that not all of these are local! Some are on hosts other than the current one! I have no control over the up-ness of most of them and have accounts on few!
Software (possibly) needed to unpack these
Most of the executables will be Windows versions, as there are so many different versions of UNIX, and most Free UNIXes should have most of this software installed already. The UNIX links will be to source packages, which you'll have to figure out how to install. Any executables will, of course, be only for Intel-compatible PCs.