On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, jim s wrote:
I talked to Tom Freeman who owned Vista, and is not
that technical about
this. The assets of Vista were auctioned off, so he did not retain any
documentation of any sort, sad to say. However from what he recalls they
probably did have preformatted media. I do have a pile "somewhere" of the
media from vista, but it will be well buried and is 1300 miles from me (and
will be some time before I can get to it).
Doug Laing of Laing Electronics purchased the rights to their Apple 2
products around 1984-5. I have no idea if they are still around or if he
has any of the software or docs.
I'll share here when I find it and let anyone
interested then have the media.
I have 2 changers in the pile as well.
Cool, thanks!
There was an engineer who did the software and
hardware for Vista, but I know
he purged his archives about 15 or 20 years ago my direction, and there was
no documentation about this product at that time, sad to say.
I recall speaking with "John" at Vista about driver issues on my Apple
IIe. Is that who you're referring to, perhaps?
It is really aggravating when folks "purge" this type of information. For
the love-of-Mike, how much trouble is it to run off a tape or burn it to a
DVD? The same thing happened to most of Applied Engineering's technical
docs when they went Chapter 11. Everything went into the dumpster.
Steve
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