Microsoft Cobol 5.0 Manuals?

[Martin Hepperle]

Similarly to the situation with Microsoft Word there seem to be no manuals for the Microsoft COBOL compilers available, except for the early ones.

While COBOL may not be the most popular language, it surely is an important part of computing history.

I understand that the Cobol versions sold by Microsoft were licensed from MicroFocus.
I can find online manuals for current MicroFocus products, but the manuals for the older Microsoft versions 4.0 and 5.0 have not been not archived (only earlier versions for CP/M and MS-DOS).

So: if you have said manuals I would like to encourage you to scan them and make them available.

Martin

 

[bchildress]

I'm not willing to scan them but have Microsoft cobol 5.0 new in box with sealed manuals and disk. Is there a recommended site to sell such an item?

 

[Martin Hepperle]

You could donate them to archive.org and they scan them and make the scans available.
Or send them to bitsavers.org for scanning and archiving.

 

[daver2]

First of all, welcome to VCFED.

We do have a "marketplace" on VCFED if you want to sell them. Someone from VCFED may end up buying them and donating them to bitsavers.org anyhow for posterity.

It all depends upon where you are and how much you want for them.

Dave

 

[bchildress]

Thank you, I'll check it out. I suspect I'll just throw them on ebay and go from there.

 

[daver2]

Can you post a link to the eBay sale in this thread when you do please.

Dave

 

[bchildress]

Here ya go

https://ebay.us/m/osFjB3