9 Mar
2007
9 Mar
'07
3:18 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
It is really sad how little software from other
vendors has survived,
and beleive me, I've been beating the bushes trying to find it!
On that note, I've largely come to the conclusion that it's impossible to
actively seek out - but that it does exist out there and will sometimes turn
up completely at random. I'm amazed at what gems I'm unearthed when I
*haven't* been trying, and via some really strange connections.
The depressing ones are when you run into someone who says: "yes, I had every
single bit of software for system xyz, but I tossed it out a couple of years
ago". That one's happened *again* in the last couple of weeks, for a line of
machines where surviving software is (currently) very thin on the ground :(
I'm not quite sure how to get the message out there that this stuff's of
potential interest - particularly without being drowned in copies of mundane
PC software. Often the people who actually have a stash of disks / tapes /
whatever aren't the ones who recall what they actually are!
cheers
Jules