24 Nov
2001
24 Nov
'01
3:09 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of
UberTechnoid(a)home.com
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 6:31 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: OT: Fear and helpfulness on classiccmp
I have that problem with my Data General mini. I'm not supposed to have
ANY of the tapes I have. The machine is mine, but all software -
microcode included I'd bet are property of Data General Corporation as
thier licenses have long expired and I'm not the licensee anyway.
When the U.S. Forest Service retired thier fleet of DG MVxxxx computers,
they did actually destroy all thier tapes, docs, etc. Even formatted the
drives.
Kind of makes you sick to think about doesn't it.
I'm lucky to have what I've got really.
Lucky yes but doesn't it seem stupid that all of that ireplacable software
and documentation is destroyed.
Illegal copies though they may be, I rather doubt
I'm getting pounded by
anyone for hobbying with this machine. I suspect the worst a judge would
do is order me to destroy/turn over the tapes.
No judge is going to bother even looking at a case like that. Why? Because
no one but busy bodies and dim-witted spoil sports would be mean enough to
consider it in legal terms. The only people who would even pay attention to
it would be ex grade school hall monitors and meter maids -in other words,
people who have such meaningless and worthless lives that the only personal
joy they get from living is to try to make other people feel as pathetic as
they do.
E.