"Software" is sometimes more than just a random collection of 1s and 0s (was Re: fair price for apple articles)

From: David Holland <dholland_at_woh.rr.com>
Date: Thu Mar 6 10:15:30 2003

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 10:44, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> > So... in the case of certain titles from certain vendors, don't discount
> > the value, historic _or_ otherwise, of the software in decent shape. Yes,
> > the "bits" are critical to running it; yes, many, many titles can be
> > found on abandonware sites; no, that's not always all that was in the box.
>
> Exactly my point. The maps that came with each Ultima are also an
> example.

Yup. Copies still having the "tokens" are even rarer. I'm still looking
for a few of those.. (Lets not even go into Savage Empire/Martian
Dreams)

(Yes, /me is a Ultima Collector :-) )

David

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