Aaron Mintz

Anyone know what happened to the Aaron Mintz website? Aaron was based at the University of Massachusetts and had the largest collection of airchecks I've ever seen. His website has been down for several months.

It's still there. Maybe your link got corrupted?

Try this.....

http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-1.htm

jt2 said:

It's still there. Maybe your link got corrupted?

Try this.....

http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-1.htm

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That's part of it. Note that it says List #1, which doesn't include the states of Illinois or Wisconsin. The original site had info about trading, what kind of airchecks Aaron was looking for, and several more lists. It also included video. There's an e-mail address at the bottom..............maybe I'll try that. Thanks for the reply.

Illinois and Wisconsin can be found on page #2:

http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-2.htm

There's also a page #3:

http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-3.htm

However, it does look like the original landing page is missing.

jt2 said:

Illinois and Wisconsin can be found on page #2:

http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-2.htm

There's also a page #3:

http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-3.htm

However, it does look like the original landing page is missing.

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Thanks jt2. I sent an e-mail. If I get a response I will post it.

TheFonz said:

Thanks jt2. I sent an e-mail. If I get a response I will post it.

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Aaron responded that he took his site off line, but he is still active. Anyone who is interested in older airchecks can contact Aaron for his list at [email protected]

Trying to reach Aaron Mintz

Does anyone know how/where to reach Aaron Mintz at this point? The email bounced back. I’m interested in one of his Airchecks.

TheFonz said:

Aaron responded that he took his site off line, but he is still active. Anyone who is interested in older airchecks can contact Aaron for his list at [email protected]

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I Like To Hear Unscoped Version MP3 2-Airchecks Golden Radio Greats From Don Bruce WNOR Tidewater,Va. 11/24/65 30 u j243/Sam Hale WQXI 10/31/63 30 u g900

I Like To Hear Unscoped Version MP3 2-Airchecks Golden Radio Greats From Don Bruce WNOR Tidewater,Va. 11/24/65 30 u j243/Sam Hale WQXI 10/31/63 30 u g900

Aaron is out of the aircheck game. he closed his sites and donated the majority of his stuff to his alma matter. I spoke to him on the phone and he is well but not an active trader.

mattlaube said:

Aaron is out of the aircheck game. he closed his sites and donated the majority of his stuff to his alma matter. I spoke to him on the phone and he is well but not an active trader.

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Has his alma mater made Mr. Mintz's collection available to the public?

Kemosabe said:

Has his alma mater made Mr. Mintz's collection available to the public?

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Only for on-campus listening. Open to researchers with no materials to be borrowed or reproduced:
https://atom.emerson.edu/index.php/aaron-mintz-audio-collection?sf_culture=en

Which means hundreds of thousands of hours of rare radio and TV are now out of circulation.

TheFonz said:

That's part of it. Note that it says List #1, which doesn't include the states of Illinois or Wisconsin. The original site had info about trading, what kind of airchecks Aaron was looking for, and several more lists. It also included video. There's an e-mail address at the bottom..............maybe I'll try that. Thanks for the reply.

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This is precisely why people should archive important websites like this in case they get hacked/ or held for ransom. These kind of websites are prime targets for ransomware hackers who will try to hold all of the files in this case airchecks for ransom and you only get them back when you pay, usually its between two hundred and up to five thousand dollars. Also they generally are based overseas in like china or somewhere so it is very difficult to hold these low lifes responsible.

michael hagerty said:

Only for on-campus listening. Open to researchers with no materials to be borrowed or reproduced:
https://atom.emerson.edu/index.php/aaron-mintz-audio-collection?sf_culture=en

Which means hundreds of thousands of hours of rare radio and TV are now out of circulation.

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Also for these links when i clicked them to look at mr. mintz collection i got a 404 not found error here are the links.
http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-1.htm
http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-3.htm
http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-2.htm .

kidrauhl said:

Also for these links when i clicked them to look at mr. mintz collection i got a 404 not found error here are the links.
http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-1.htm
http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-3.htm
http://people.umass.edu/ahmintz/aircheck-list-2.htm .

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Yeah---but Aaron has deliberately let the site go dead. He's retired, the collection is with Emerson. There's no need for it to be up any longer.

DavidEduardo said:

A thoughtful webmaster will have multiple backups that are not resident on the machine where the ransomware is planted. A removable hard drive, a NAS that requires log-on, the cloud and offsite copies all reduce the possible loss to as little as a few hours in some cases.

I have two separate cloud backups, two separate NAS devices, a removable drive bay and a set of rotating 4tb spinners and, internally, 4 10 tb hard drives that are separate from the main drive and OS. And periodically, portable drives are sent to two of the participants on this group who keep them safe and air-gapped. I also keep a clone of the boot drive, updated frequently, just in case.

In my case, the site is 1.7 tb in size and over 10 million files; downloading it over even a 300/300 fiber connection takes about 36 to 40 hours. I know as I am in the middle of repairing a very rare crash of 3 out of 4 RIAD 6 drives on my own site and it has taken 20 hours already and there are 5 million files to go.

Major sites are not easy to copy and store unless one has a good system and good backup software.

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And man, am I glad you did, David. I use AmericanRadioHistory.com at least once a day for fact-checking and entertainment. THANK YOU to whoever is responsible for the back issues of Radio and Records!

DavidEduardo said:

A thoughtful webmaster will have multiple backups that are not resident on the machine where the ransomware is planted. A removable hard drive, a NAS that requires log-on, the cloud and offsite copies all reduce the possible loss to as little as a few hours in some cases.

I have two separate cloud backups, two separate NAS devices, a removable drive bay and a set of rotating 4tb spinners and, internally, 4 10 tb hard drives that are separate from the main drive and OS. And periodically, portable drives are sent to two of the participants on this group who keep them safe and air-gapped. I also keep a clone of the boot drive, updated frequently, just in case.

In my case, the site is 1.7 tb in size and over 10 million files; downloading it over even a 300/300 fiber connection takes about 36 to 40 hours. I know as I am in the middle of repairing a very rare crash of 3 out of 4 RIAD 6 drives on my own site and it has taken 20 hours already and there are 5 million files to go.

Major sites are not easy to copy and store unless one has a good system and good backup software.

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Wow what all consists of the millions of files you have just like radio publications on your website or other stuff?