Bc2000 (for the BCF2000 & BCR2000)

On 7 Jun 2011, at 10:15, sghookings@... wrote:

> No doubt folks with a historical perspective will say "No! The ping dynasty should be the zeitgeist in China", but I mean the link from the BCR forum home page hasnt worked for me over the past week.
> 
> The links takes me to http://bc2000.pingdynasty.com/ which gets Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to bc2000.pingdynasty.com
> 
> I was curious to see what alternative perspectives were on offer here.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Steve H
> 
>

>
> --- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, Martin Klang <mars@> wrote:
> > I'm planning some more server maintenance in the near future and will try to reinstate it.
> > However, there was never many users on it and it sort of went into neglect mode.
> > 
> > What do people think, is it important to get the wiki back up and running, or not so much?
> 
> For several years there was a "basic" Wikipedia page about the BCR2000, but abt. 2 years ago some (over)zealous editors scrapped it ("Wikipedia is not a product catalog"). When that happened I thought "oh well, fair enough, we've still got the wiki at pingdynasty".
> 
> THEN (perhaps a year ago) Kip's "old" GenMce site at 110mb.com about the BCR2000 went down. (I'm not sure if it is still down.)
> 
> So in this light I think it would be a shame if the wiki at pingdynasty were to go down permanently as well.
> 
> I've found that there are quite a few people who contact me about BC Manager directly via my own web site (rather than via the Yahoo group): apparently for some people it's a rather "big" step to become a registered member of the Yahoo group.
> 
> So I think it's nice to have a free-access portal with general info, pointers to the relevant BCF/BCR web sites, etc.
> Pingdynasty has probably saved me from having to answer quite a few questions personally, so I've always been very grateful that pingdynasty existed.
> 
> I can't judge the amount of people actually visiting (or contributing to) pingdynasty (but at least Steve H did!), but I would definitely vote for the reinstatement of pingdynasty.
> But of course I could understand it if you decide not to because of the amount of work involved.
> 
> Thanks very much anyway for setting up and maintaining the pingdynasty wiki in the first place!
> 
> Mark.
>

From: teddy_bones <tormodvm@...>
To: bc2000@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wed, July 27, 2011 11:55:54 AM
Subject: [bc2000] Re: Did ping dynasty disappear

  
I got my bcf2000 after pingdynasty went down.  I've really missed a wiki while 
programming it.  Any updates on whether it's coming back or not?

Tormod 

--- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, "Mark v.d. Berg" <markwinvdb@...> wrote:
>
> --- In bc2000@yahoogroups.com, Martin Klang <mars@> wrote:
> > I'm planning some more server maintenance in the near future and will try to 
>reinstate it.
> > However, there was never many users on it and it sort of went into neglect 
>mode.
> > 
> > What do people think, is it important to get the wiki back up and running, or 
>not so much?
> 
> For several years there was a "basic" Wikipedia page about the BCR2000, but 
>abt. 2 years ago some (over)zealous editors scrapped it ("Wikipedia is not a 
>product catalog"). When that happened I thought "oh well, fair enough, we've 
>still got the wiki at pingdynasty".
> 
> THEN (perhaps a year ago) Kip's "old" GenMce site at 110mb.com about the 
>BCR2000 went down. (I'm not sure if it is still down.)
> 
> So in this light I think it would be a shame if the wiki at pingdynasty were to 
>go down permanently as well.
> 
> I've found that there are quite a few people who contact me about BC Manager 
>directly via my own web site (rather than via the Yahoo group): apparently for 
>some people it's a rather "big" step to become a registered member of the Yahoo 
>group.
> 
> So I think it's nice to have a free-access portal with general info, pointers 
>to the relevant BCF/BCR web sites, etc.
> Pingdynasty has probably saved me from having to answer quite a few questions 
>personally, so I've always been very grateful that pingdynasty existed.
> 
> I can't judge the amount of people actually visiting (or contributing to) 
>pingdynasty (but at least Steve H did!), but I would definitely vote for the 
>reinstatement of pingdynasty.
> But of course I could understand it if you decide not to because of the amount 
>of work involved.
> 
> Thanks very much anyway for setting up and maintaining the pingdynasty wiki in 
>the first place!
> 
> Mark.
>






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