People can poke around in it more easily. E.g. I wanted to look at the 6808 OS code but it's a zip file and I'm using a phone, so... Not saying it needed to be

People can poke around in it more easily. E.g. I wanted to look at the 6808 OS code but it's a zip file and I'm using a phone, so... Not saying it needed to be on github only, but unzipping into a set of repos there in addition to posting the zips would be helpful. I suppose anyone could do that, but then the provenance is not preserved.