Seeking reverse-engineers - Apple II VisiCalc

[Jules Richardson]

John Foust wrote:
> No matter how many times I hear stories like this, or lived through 
> stories like this, I still shake my head and can't understand how the 
> source code gets lost.

I think typically it just gets misplaced, not lost :-)  If a company's 
churning out new products once in a while then it stands to reason that the 
older, obsolete stuff gets pushed to the back of a cupboard... then buried... 
then moved to a different cupboard...

I bet it still exists in a lot of cases, but everybody's forgotten exactly 
where, simply because it's been such a long time since they last needed to know.

The picture's perhaps a bit brighter these days, because the storage is so 
cheap now that there's less incentive to dump things from corporate 
fileservers every once in a while (storing them in the aforementioned cupboard).

cheers

J.