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Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall

From Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall
Date 2015-09-02 19:05 +0000
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On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 11:50:31 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:

> On 9/2/15 11:06 AM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> 
>> To be honest, would people really care about PC DOS 3.3?  Quick Basic
>> compiler 4.5, including a section on utilizing expanded and extended
>> memory?
>>
>>
> There is some interest in preservation of pre-Windows PC software just
> because most of it has been thrown out. I collect it for CHM, and have
> been scanning users manuals for our internal archive. One issue that I
> keep bringing up with people is there is no registry of known
> copy-protected software, which is going to be a huge issue as people try
> to migrate this off of physical media for preservation purposes.

I am moving out of my office at work, and have scanned manuals for a load 
of versions of PC DOS (I wrote an early book on PC DOS so I stuck with 
it). I started at 2.0. The manuals themselves had to go.

I have floppy images for all of them, and a load of DOS software.

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    Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-08-29 19:56 -0600
  Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 11:06 -0700
    Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2015-09-02 11:50 -0700
      Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-02 19:05 +0000
    Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-02 19:12 +0000
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