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I'm glad folks are finding things in there worth rescuing.
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What kinds of software? The original walk through video did show some IBM Assistant series stuff.LOTs of software still shrink wrapped. I grabbed a little bit of everything.
That was the Commodore PET version. Although who know, they could have one buried in there. I'd be surprised if they didn't have copies of Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM PCJr, which required a cartridge. Also, there were ports of Lotus 1-2-3 for many oddball machines such as the Texas Instruments Professional Computer. They might even have some of those there.I know some of those VisiCalc versions had special ROMs you plugged into the computer as some sort of license key check thingy. Sealed copies will have this!
They did. Stacks of them. I grabbed one.I'd be surprised if they didn't have copies of Lotus 1-2-3 for IBM PCJr, which required a cartridge.
In my best Monty Python impersonation, "He's already got one you see."A lot of that DEC Rainbow stuff has not been publicly archived, and some of it is copy protected, which requires dumps with a Kryoflux.
All kinds of stuff! I tried to focus on stuff I couldn’t easily find online, on that one website.
Some of the coolest stuff I found: a copy of WordPerfect for dec rainbow, and it was still sealed. Lotus 123 on cartridge for PCJr, sealed. Wordstar Pro 3.31, sealed.
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If someone is making lots of money and everything he's doing is legal the only comment I would make is... bravo!While I can have empathy for your person situation, I can't have any empathy for your mission to help members of Deskthority.
Considering how keyboards/switches go for much more on the internet than the rest of the systems, what can you say about the idea of just grabbing the most valuable things for primarily mercenary reasons? It's hard to see you as a philanthropist if you're making money hand over fist from your transactions while not helping anyone from the vintage computer group get keyboards to go with the systems they're finding.
I wasn't there and what I say must be taken as things that are possibilities for the sake of discussion.
If someone is making lots of money and everything he's doing is legal the only comment I would make is... bravo!