norcim-rc.club R/C website is no more

[Mike_K]

I was chatting with Shaun this afternoon and he heard of the demise of the popular vintage R/C website norcim-rc.club (Micron spelt backwards - the UK radio kit manufacturer from the 70s and 80s). It appears the site owner was getting old and decided to pull the plug without warning. This is a real shame as I'm certain one of us would have taken the site over to preserve the content.

I have downloaded most of the pages via archive.org (Wayback machine), but some images are missing. Before I try to contact the original owners to see if they have a copy of the site, did anybody make a complete copy of the site when it was still up-and-running? Failing that does anybody have Terry Tippett or David Caudrey contact details, please? I think Phil_G knew Terry from back in the early days, do you still know if he's still with us?

[Rene]

Found this:
https://community.f-secure.com/en/discu ... im-rc-club

René

[Flynn]

...dated feb 8th Rene... I think this is after that. Can't help with any of the other info wanted.

[Phil_G]

Spoke to Terry, offered hosting but he said a definite no, he actively wants to close it.
Shame but its Terrys decision - lets hope Archive.org took a good look at it !
Cheers
Phil

[Phil_G]

Had a further email from Terry today, he sent a link to a site he's assembled from screen dumps of the old Norcim site.
This is purely picture-based, a series of jpg images.
I've asked how these screen dumps were taken (from what source?) with a view to recovering the html and the original graphic files,
but apparently this is all there is now.
Rather than pursue what could be a touchy subject I think we should be grateful to Terry for this, its much, much better than nothing!
http://www.norcim.org/

Cheers
Phil

[Rene]

Great work Phil,
I have managed to retrieve all the pages, the quality is good.
Like you said; definitely better than nothing!
Regards,
René