[Coco] Old Coco Media

[Tim Fadden]

Well, 

Today I did a google for falsot something or other,a and found the 
falsoft bulding for sale! I think we need a local Dr. Watson to check it 
out.

Tim Fadden

Paul E. Jones wrote:
> Ron, et al,
>
> I believe that a few folks on this list would pay.  But, I believe there are
> only two reasons why they would do it:
> 1) To lend a hand to the cost, time, and trouble of the person who did the
> work -- a reward, more or less, that is still likely to be less than the
> real sweat put into it
> 2) "For memory sake"
>
> I agree that there is really no "value" in terms on money.  And, as each
> year passes, even the "thanks for your hard effort" potential will diminish.
>
> What we ought to do is determine who, if anybody, owns the copyright.  What
> happened to Falsoft?  If it just closed and no entity acquired its assets,
> then there is no copyright holder. (That could complicate things if, as
> somebody suggested, Falsoft did not own the rights.  What I contributed
> belonged to Falsoft.)
>
> I tried to contact Ms. Falk not too long ago, but just got an answering
> machine and no return call.
>
> I think trying to find Falsoft's successor is the only solution.  The only
> other solution is to just make the (likely reasonable) assumption that it's
> all in the public domain and see what happens.  Heck, what would the damages
> be for things of no value and upon which we had reason to believe were in
> the public domain?
>
> Is there anybody in or around Prospect, KY who can go knock on a door?  It
> can't be that hard to find out where things stand.
>
> Paul
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-
>> bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Ron Bihler
>> Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:33 PM
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: [Coco] Old Coco Media
>>
>> Forgive as I am an outsider voicing my opinions.
>> It has been a very long time since I was active in the Coco Community,
>> a really long time for that matter.  I was very familiar with the likes
>> of Warren Hrach, Charles Pippin and many others that contributed to the
>> BBS community and Fidonet at the time.
>> How this has all changed but yet stayed the same.  When I took on the
>> project of connecting into the Fidonet (Those not familair - it was
>> similair to this group but all the people involved would contact a
>> local connect or in many cases a Long distance connection to share
>> messages across the country).
>> At that time the primary systems connected where the XT and AT's of the
>> day.  It took some very good and willing to people to put up with the
>> software I created and the problems.  Somehow it did get done.  The
>> coco has always been the underdog to the bigger machines, but has had a
>> solid following (Small thought).
>>
>> I syspect many people are like myself, I was big time into the Coco and
>> OS9.  Countless hours of typing in Rainbow programs.  However I have a
>> very fond memory of this time, I have since moved on.  This is really
>> very old technology.  I also work with a bunch of old Hardware based on
>> 6809 or 68000 processors, robotics etc.  I can't tell you how hard it
>> is to find software or hardware for these old machines, if at all.
>> After holding onto the Hardware and Magizines for 15 years, I ended up
>> disposing of it (Prior to Ebay being big) as there was NO interest. I
>> had all of them up to the introduction of the MM/1, this included Hot
>> Coco/ Rainbow and a few issues on one I can't even remember.  Regrets
>> yes, but realality steps in and I can't keep it all.
>>
>> It would be a shame to lose this piece of history, I do hope something
>> happens to archive it.  This sounds like many old hardware peices I
>> use, much of the data is lost forever.  Someone has it in a dark store
>> room getting moldy to never see the light of day.  I myself have
>> nothing left from this time, I had passed on my files for porting to
>> the MM/1.  This is history, the only value is for the collector and
>> this group and this has to be very limited.  Really now how many people
>> are willing to fork out even 20 bucks for a DVD, 20, 40 ???
>>
>> Again just me two cents worth.  Had to say something.
>>
>> Ron Bihler
>> Author of RiBBS system.
>>
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