On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 mhstein at
canada.com wrote:
There are numerous systems out there, and Herb and
Howard et al are
doing a great job of archiving the documentation, but what about the
software? Is anybody archiving the various versions of CDOS, Cromix &
Unix, and the languages & applications?
I know I've got lots of various versions of this stuff on various media.
Nothing concerted, however.
For that matter, is there any point? I don't see
many people writing
Cobol or Fortran programs to run on a System 3...
Yes. There's always value in preserving this stuff. Even if not apparent
to us now. And it only takes the space of a floppy disk (or no space at
all once it's been converted over to a modern hard disk).
So, any ideas what to do with it? (no obscene
suggestions, please!)
Stick it up your hard drive?
BTW, any news about what happened with Don
Maslin's collection?
I'm wondering the same thing.
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