The Don Maslin Software Archive

On Sun, 15 May 2005 shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote: On the heels of my foolish posting (see accompanying apology) this sounds a bit off, but here goes: But don't archivists make their archives available? Clearly, Don's is not. If Don had been loosely operating an informal library, then his family would have at least a faint handle on what to do with it. My attempt at a point earlier was that he was packratting, making a big pile of stuff with no real plans for the future. This appears to be fact. We've all gone to estate sales of people who did this very thing. It's a great way to morbidly pick up deals from distraught families but it's not a way to "archive". This is what I meant as a lesson to us all. By all accounts Don was a great guy, friendly and helpful. I just find it frustrating that this packratting is exalted, and could have been so easily headed off. That's all.