tkrn’s vintage computer and game console archive

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Mission Statement

“tkrn’s archive is a niche web archive specifically focused on the preservation of vintage computer technology and video game console related information. There is an emphasis on preserving sites that have information to reverse engineering hardware/software and or driver/game/mod repositories.”

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Complete crawl inclusions

Binary files
Embedded YouTube streams captured
FTP/SFTP file inclusion
Backup of complete FTP sites (mirrors)

= More complete crawl of websites

System Configuration

HP DL380p Gen8

2x Intel E5-2697 v2, 12-core @ 2.7 Ghz
256GB DDR3 Memory
1x 240GB SSD SATA Boot Volume
24x 1.2TB 10K SAS Drives (primary crawl space)
24x 3TB 7.2K NL-SAS Drives (repository space)

Debian 11 “bullseye”

Docker Engine
- nginx
- webrecorder/pywb
- nlagovau/outbackcdx
- ekoerner/heritrix:3.4.0-20210923-contrib-jre
ZFS on Linux

Contact Notes

If you’re a site that has been crawled by my bot and you wish to provide feedback please do so by using the following form.

Secondly, if you’re a user that has a suggestion for sites to be archived please use the following form to let me know which sites should be captured. Ideally, provide a reason for the archive crawl. Each site will be individually reviewed to determine if it aligns with the mission of the project.

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