I reviewed the email thread about this yesterday, but wanted to give it a little thought before replying. First, I'd be happy to contact Winnie - possibly to try and give her a 3rd person view of the situation so that she understands that Don's software & docs - while not "valuable", is "valuable". As an option, I could pursue trying to make arrangements to obtain it - perhaps there's some personality issue between her and Vince (this is NOT a slam against Vince at all - sometimes personalities just don't mesh, prior perceptions change, etc.). However, that all being said I am of the opinion after carefully reading all the posts on this topic that I've seen... that Winnie has no intention whatsoever to let go of the documentation and/or software. One could imagine she needs to hold on to it as something tangible of Don. One could imagine that based on the way some things were phrased, that she is under the (false) impression it is worth a kings ransom in real dollars and is holding off disposition because she's frantically searching for an appraiser to tell her what she wants to hear. I'm not making judgements here, just pondering the technical possibilities. I've seen the posts talking about having a museum get in contact with her. Perhaps this would be a good thing, but again my own impression is that if a museum calls, most people are likely to smell $$$. So if Vince would like me to contact her, I'd be happy to - I'm pretty good at that kind of discussion actually. My own opinion so far though is that Vince is the best person to still pursue this, and getting another person(s) directly involved with Winnie will only hurt, not help. Not to mention I suspect she won't let it go anyway, at least until she hears from several appraisers. Perhaps I could draft a letter (from ClassicCMP) explaining some things she should consider, get the letter to Vince, and have him deliver it. That way he's still in front, but perhaps some additional thoughts to her may help Vince as "ammunition" or at the least give Winnie reason to thing that Vince's ideas/comments aren't "just his", and a lot of people feel the same way. With regards to starting an S100/CPM repository... well... someone should really look at all the Heathkit stuff I got. There's a room full of CPM stuff, including several cases (case being about 1.5 foot by 3 foot) of 8" floppies, cases of 5.25 hard sector floppies, and pretty much every piece of software and newsletter ever released for the heathkit CPM boxes. I do not have time to do that. But, I strongly suspect what I have would be a good start on a CPM archive. And of course, the ClassicCmp server exists not only to run the mailing list, but to house documentation and software for vintage systems. There's quite a few vintage software repositories on the ClassicCmp server (the newest one is the TRS-80 archives) including the swtpc archives, retroarchive, rainbow archives, bygone, and of course, a full mirror of the #1 classic site - bitsavers.org. I believe there's about 70gb free on the server archive drives (and enough money in the kitty still from donations to add more disk if need be), so if a CPM/S100 repository is started, feel free to host it there. The ClassicCmp server is well connected and well cared for so it's a safe spot. Simply put, I'm offering to host a CPM/S100 archive "Don's, or a new one", at no charge, forever. Kind regards, Jay West