The Don Maslin Software Archive

[Jules Richardson]

On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 19:44 -0700, Tom Jennings wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2005 shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com wrote:
> 
> >> are you a packrat (as Don apparently was) or a collector?
> >
> > Don was neither.  He was a true archivist, in this case working
> > for the CP/M community.
> 
> On the heels of my foolish posting (see accompanying apology) this
> sounds a bit off, but here goes:
> 
> But don't archivists make their archives available? Clearly, Don's
> is not. 

I'm not sure about making it physically available, but at least to do it
electronically costs money that might not be available. Plus of course
making disk images / rom images / scanning docs all eats up a lot of
time.

Regarding physical archives, most of us are probably quite approachable
I'd imagine - distance being a problem there. It sounds like Don was at
least organising and rescuing stuff that otherwise might have gone to
landfill; it's just a shame instructions weren't apparently left as to
what to do with everything after he'd gone.

cheers

Jules