Cromemco Software - what to do with it?

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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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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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