Al, The short (or long) of it is that 1) I got everyone to stop calling Don's wife Winnie right after his death (8-2004) with the understanding that I would rescue his archive, package it, and make it available for everyone to download gratis (the Computer Museum here in SD was going to provide a platform and a bit of legal protection). 2) Winnie later declined to allow anyone to find, rescue the archive. There was no way to make her understand WHAT the archive was, much less its value. IMHO, she thought Don was just puttering in the garage that served as his shop. When it became clear that she would not keep her side of our agreement, and that my involvement was not going to be helpful, I suggested that Jay West contact her (I don't think he did). 3) A family member (who gave me the photos of Don and Winnie I sent to Sellam for the following VCF) told me that he thought the garage would remain as it was until Winnie died, or had it cleaned out by some junk hauler. I later heard that a lawyer was going to find the archive and rescue it; he supposedly thought it could be done in an afternoon. Rots of ruck, I thought. Don's shop was a physical mess, and the archive was not in just one computer, all nicely organized. Personally, I felt - and still feel sick about it. I OUGHT to have somehow forced Don to put the stuff on CD (I showed him how, but he hated Windoze with a passion and wouldn't play Linux either.) And he was an adult.... You can get all the details in the 2004-2005 ClassicCmp archives. Or write me back. Vern Wright --- On Thu, 1/14/10, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote: