Old Software rights (was content rights)

[bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca]

>> Those days really ended around 1970.
>>
>> It's particularly annoying in the area of OS's for our classic 
>> computers, which remain under copyright to companies which may have 
>> gone belly-up, been absorbed and forgotten by their buyers, etc. 
>> Getting an old CP/M machine without the OS, and not having a legal 
>> source for it, makes 'criminals' of us all.
>> And it's damned unfair!

Well you still can get CP/M here... http://www.cadigital.com/cadigtl.htm
Got milk ... um 8" drives still.

>>> Everyone from that era has also vanished with the wind, I
>>> know, I've looked.

I am finding data sheets from that era hard to find too.
Ben.

PS.Is the Teletype Model 40 for $50 a good deal? I can't seem
to find any info on the web about it.