Tech Note 31 offline; no moof is good moof?

A moment of silence, please, for some pieces of apple lore that seems to have fallen victim to the unlink() of history and been relegated to the /dev/null of developer.apple.com.

Last night I was trying to explain the concept of intersections of the canine and bovine coordinate systems to my (remarkably tolerant) girlfriend and went looking for the canonical dogcow reference, Macintosh Tecnical Note #31: The Dogcow (a.k.a. tn31). Imagine my surprise when it wasn't there! Nor were the first known recording of dogcow in the wild, or Brian Bechtel's A nest of dogcattle. They don't appear to have been relocated in the new scheme, either, just rm -f'd.

tn1031, History and Peregrinations: The Dogcow Goes QuickTime VR is still available, as is the Clarus 'SICN' resource in tn1019. But tn31, where we were first introduced to dogcow habits and habitats, first learned Clarus' name, and first heard the 'Moof!' of a real, live dogcow seems to be gone forever. fortunately for Clarus fans, most of the information conained in tn31, along with Mark Harlan's subsequent "History of the Dogcow" parts 1 & 2, is available at the the "official dogcow website,' Moof in Mind, and Freek Dijkstra has archived the original tn31, complete with 'Moof!' QT audio at MacFreek.