Vintage fans should be sad at the loss of Fan Tao's website, which showed his impressive collection and very articulate comments on those interesting binoculars. There was a lot of love there!
But over on Cloudy Nights, one of the members somehow discovered that some angel had archived this information, and I will now simply copy over from CN, at risk of lawsuit I reckon, the post conveying this comforting news:
"Yes, the email is visible on the main page of his site shown by the internet archive.org site as of April 3rd.
Go to: http://www.archive.org/
put in http://fanTao.home.att.net/index.htm <-- broken link
and select what date you want to retrieve. "
I tried it and it works. Apparently, the only date you need select is the last one, as it appears to be the work in its final form.
I wonder what happened to Fan Tao. We will miss him.
Ron
Thanks for the link, Ron. I bookmarked it.
Write to Holger Merlitz and he should know. Holger is in Asia and Fan Tao was a good friend of his. I know that when Geocities closed, I had to find homes for many of my web pages elsewhere. It could be that simple.