5 May
1998
5 May
'98
2:55 p.m.
On Tue, 5 May 1998, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Oh? You know somewhere you can buy the originals?
I've found some original sealed Microsoft CP/M software by frequenting
comp.os.cpm. None of the registration cards that I've sent in during
the past couple years have come back returned from any of Microsoft's
old Redmond/Seattle addresses, so I assume they found their way to
the right place (though I've never heard anything back from any bug
reports on CP/M products.)
Speaking of sealed originals, I found some original still shrink-wrapped
Osborne software today, with the original Byte Shop price stickers on them
no less. They were basically some accounting packages by a company called
Computronic that made software for the gamut of the machines of the era
(TRS-80, Apple, Atari, Commodore, Xeroex, Osborne, Kaypro...that was the
list of machines on the package). I also got a shrink-wrapped copy of
WordStar circa 1981, a shrink-wrapped copy of Microsoft Multi-Tool Budget
and a shrinkwrapped copy of Desktop Plan II by Visicorp. Vintage
shrink-wrapped software is still out there, you just gotta look for it.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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The party
agrees that unauthorized copying or disclosure will cause great
damage to MICROSOFT."
Hey! Let's all start copying Basic 80! Or other Microsoft stuff!
Perhaps we can cause great damage to Microsoft!
Wait a bit... somehow I don't think we'll do any damage unless we
persuade people to buy our copies in preference to the originals.