[Info-vax] DECUS Software

[Dave Froble]

On 7/18/2023 10:13 AM, bill wrote:
> On 7/18/2023 10:07 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> On 2023-07-18 15:08, bill wrote:
>>>
>>> I know that most (but sadly, not all) of the DECUS Symposium Tapes
>>> are scattered around the web for the taking but.....
>>>
>>> Is there an archive anywhere of all (or some?) the various DECUS
>>> products that are listed in the PDP-11 and VAX Software Sourcebooks?
>>>
>>> There are a lot of really interesting things listed in there and it
>>> would be not only fun read some of the sources but even more fun to
>>> try and revive some of them on more current systems.
>>>
>>> Anybody know where they might be found?  Does anyone who might have
>>> helped maintain the DECUS archives back in the day still exist?
>>
>> Most of the PDP-11 symposium tapes are still possible to find. Individual
>> items might be trickier sometimes...
>>
>> Don't know for sure about the VAX bits...
>>
>
> As stated, I know the Symposium Tapes (except for the one I really
> want!) are usually available.  I am interested in the stuff that was
> listed as products "available from DECUS" in the PDP_11 and VAX
> Software Sourcebooks.  Did all the stuff held  by DECUS end up in the
> trash with the only survivors being stuff individuals kept copies of?
> We're talking hundreds of interesting packages.  Is all of that lost
> like all the other commercial stuff?
>
>
> bill
>
>

There is the VMS freeware CDs.  Still available.  Don't know how much cross-over 
with the DECUS SIG stuff.

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