[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: RAINBOW scans

[John Murphy]

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From: "Tony Cappellini" <cappy2112 at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 10:05 PM
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Re: RAINBOW scans

> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 2:51 PM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Cc: <jdiffendaffer at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Re: RAINBOW scans
>
>> I know for a fact they have old cocos & coco software in their
>> collection. I have seen it. They might even have some old Rainbows.
>> Fancy that.
>> I wonder when the last time Tandy's lawyers (and Dec, HP, Cray, IBM,
>> et al..) issued cease & desist orders.
>
>>>When did a bunch of lawyers last issue cease and desist orders?
> I was referring to the docs archived in the Computer History Museum,
> not in general ;-)
>
> They have recently restored a PDP1 to fully working status. I would
> not be surprised if they had copies of documentation for that project,
> and in general. Fortunately, I know the chief engineer who worked on
> that project. I will find out.
> I'm sure whomever owns the copyrights to DEC isn't loosing any sleep over 
> it.
>

Don't know who owns DEC copyrights in general, but I would guess HP.
Compaq bought DEC. HP bought Compaq.

HP is onsite regularly doing warrantee work on our Alphas, and all our VMS 
patches come from HP.