MediaWiki:Sitenotice:
2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
Correction (Rainbow 1981-09)
In the screen printer article last month, the listing left out a semicolon in Line 50 after the (Q), that is, at the end of the line.
The correct line 50 should read as follows
50 PRINT#-2,CHR$(Q);
Our thanks to al Morgan for this find.