Casey Bralla via plug on 8 Feb 2024 16:42:57 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Apple II ProDOS Wanted

On 2024-02-08 06:29 PM, Steve Litt via plug wrote:
> Rich Mingin \(PLUG\) via plug said on Thu, 8 Feb 2024 16:05:28 -0500
>
>> On Thu, Feb 8, 2024 at 3:05 PM Casey Bralla via plug
>> wrote:
>>> I'm the proud owner of a 1983 Apple IIe computer with dual (count
>>> 'em!) disk drives that I bought from eBay.
>> I mean, I'd never advocate piracy, but given the absolute lack of
>> current vendors vs. having the hardware, how would you feel about disk
>> images?
> Part of my income comes from selling information, so as you can
> imagine, I too am not an advocate of unauthorized copying. But in this
> case, not only what Rich said, but also, copyright length is waaaay too
> long. It should be 15 years, renewable for another 15, then public
> domain. [1] [2]
>
> Apple 2 is about 40 years old. I think it would be ethical to grab a
> copy any way you could get it.

I agree.  "Pirating" 40 year old software for obsolete hardware doesn't
strike me as unethical.  But in any event, Eric Lucas pointed me at a
site that has new-old stock of the software, so I ordered it from them.

https://www.ebluejay.com/ads/item/4249176

$22.85 total for what should be pristine disks from a known source is
reasonable, although the ADTPro technique of wiring sound output to the
cassette input of the Apple is pretty clever and would be fun to try.

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