Once upon a time, I would have linked you here:
http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midispec.htm
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It’s a sad time, the online midi community should mourn that site… try midi.org.
this is way too bad, do you think is there a way to contact the guy and ask him fo rth web files? I/we could host it, that was the best resource ever!
Simone
Try wayback machine 
http://web.archive.org/web/20070820161159/http://www.borg.com/~jglatt/tech/midispec.htm
errr.. i haven t had my second coffe of the morning yet… 
tx
Whoa that site rocks! Well, after playing around with it I was able to figure it out. It wasn’t near as hard as I thought it would be. Thanks for all the help everyone! And I agree, someone needs to figure out how to resurrect the site, apart from having to use Wayback
I’m aware of wayback machine but the importance of that site is lost on you if you think that’s good enough. That site is to midi, what google is to searching.
There’s a lot more to it than just that midi spec page - windows programming info being one.. Jeff put in a LOT of hard work teaching a lot of people about midi and how to use it with their gear, be that gear a PC, mac, synth or midibox or whatever…The sites been there since forever too.
If anyone is able to somehow make a complete working copy of the entire site, I am sure we could find a host… I’d prefer to have the name’s permission before hosting it but if he has just disappeared as it seems…What can we do? A couple of us have tried to email him but it returns an NDR saying his mailbox is full.
It occurred to me that maybe the hosting company would be able to get the data for us from backup tapes, perhaps for a small fee (which I will pay)… But I think they’ll want Jeff’s permission to do that.
If anyone else is keen on trying to resurrect the site I’ll help them to find assistance if they need it. A couple of emails to some of the big audio blogs like matrixsynth etc would surely spark up some interest.
Note: If we do get it back up, full credit for the content will remain with Jeff - it’s only right.
In any case, someone should “spider” the website in the meantime. And check for any missing files/pictures. Wayback machine doesen’t always include bigger images or files. At least one picture is missing, dunno if earlier snapshots have it? I’d do it myself but I’m currently running on my back-system’s back-up system… with Linux… behaving badly >:(
I printed out the midi spec from that site long ago, when I could only find it by paying money anywhere else…Sad to see it go. Hopefully it can be saved.
Well wayback machine killed my spider… Anyone have any luck there/other ideas?
Still, it doesn’t get the images back 
Make the spider act/seem more like browser?
Try limiting your spider to use only one HTTP connection at a time".
Try finding a “stealth” mode of somesort, On default spiders indentify themselves as such…
On last resolt one could also save the webpages by hand but it would be time-consuming and tedious task, and all links to pictures and pages would have to remade.
By hand :o check out the whole site, that’s hundreds of pages and thousands of links!
Yeh I figured I’d tweak the app a bit… I think wayback are well tooled against such things, but we’ll see
Any progress? I could give it a try, I’ve got the time
Very little progress here I’m afraid. Please give it a try if you like 
I’m going to redo it. (by hand)
I’ll put a new version online soon, i promise.
Awesome.
I have a pdf and a bunch of HTML etc saved here if you want?
Shout out if I can help any other way!
If we can split to job in several part and distribute it among all interested it could be doable with less effort, i am in!
Let’s get organized people!
Bill, just say what partition in what way you want.
i’ll help if needed
A quick’n’dirty download/mass-find/replace lead to this:
Hope that helps until bill’s got the new version online. There’s some missing files though (the ones that were missing in the wayback snapshot I downloaded).
A quick’n’dirty download/mass-find/replace lead to this:http://schickt.de/_midispec/
that’s allready perfect.
Stryd sent me the missing pages, so i think i have almost everything.
Then, i’m just going to use a css to make it look better
If you want a zipped version of it, let me know.
edit: Ahhh wtf. Zip is attached.
[midispec.zip](< base_url >/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=4273)
