Value of a PDP/8?

[Jules Richardson]

Al Kossow wrote:
> It is really sad how little software from other vendors has survived,
> and beleive me, I've been beating the bushes trying to find it!

On that note, I've largely come to the conclusion that it's impossible to 
actively seek out - but that it does exist out there and will sometimes turn 
up completely at random. I'm amazed at what gems I'm unearthed when I 
*haven't* been trying, and via some really strange connections.

The depressing ones are when you run into someone who says: "yes, I had every 
single bit of software for system xyz, but I tossed it out a couple of years 
ago". That one's happened *again* in the last couple of weeks, for a line of 
machines where surviving software is (currently) very thin on the ground :(

I'm not quite sure how to get the message out there that this stuff's of 
potential interest - particularly without being drowned in copies of mundane 
PC software. Often the people who actually have a stash of disks / tapes / 
whatever aren't the ones who recall what they actually are!

cheers

Jules