Drexel Macintosh
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Link to 26 Programs Recovered (Drexel University, Oregon State University and Dartmouth)
Over the last few months I have been working on a personal preservation project to document and capture early Macintosh software that was written in the educational space. As of writing this I have been able to successfully preserve 26 programs and have downloaded the content from ~200 400 and 800k disks that were given to me from alumni.
I'm making this post as in my work I found an article from August 1986 discussing Kinko's Academic Courseware Exchange (ACE 1986-1989) which was a catalog that College Professors could submit the programs developed for their courses for sale! Based on this article I know that in 1986 Drexel University submitted multiple pieces of software and I have only been able to recover 4 from the list so far.
If you or a parent or a friend or anyone has floppy disks from the 1980s please let me know if they need to be preserved! I have multiple preservation setups now (Macintosh 512K, Macintosh Plus X2, Macintosh SE, LC 475 and a Greaseweazle) all of which can dump the contents of a disk quickly to FloppyEmu. I am also 100% willing to help in anyway I can to make sure this software is not lost forever.
Searching for a copy of:
Missing software:
Link to 26 Programs Recovered (Drexel University, Oregon State University and Dartmouth)
Over the last few months I have been working on a personal preservation project to document and capture early Macintosh software that was written in the educational space. As of writing this I have been able to successfully preserve 26 programs and have downloaded the content from ~200 400 and 800k disks that were given to me from alumni.
I'm making this post as in my work I found an article from August 1986 discussing Kinko's Academic Courseware Exchange (ACE 1986-1989) which was a catalog that College Professors could submit the programs developed for their courses for sale! Based on this article I know that in 1986 Drexel University submitted multiple pieces of software and I have only been able to recover 4 from the list so far.
If you or a parent or a friend or anyone has floppy disks from the 1980s please let me know if they need to be preserved! I have multiple preservation setups now (Macintosh 512K, Macintosh Plus X2, Macintosh SE, LC 475 and a Greaseweazle) all of which can dump the contents of a disk quickly to FloppyEmu. I am also 100% willing to help in anyway I can to make sure this software is not lost forever.
Searching for a copy of:
- Kinko's Academic Courseware Exchange (ACE) Published between 1986 and 1989
Missing software:
- Chemistry Multiplan Templates
- Signal Operator 1.0
- Tools for Writers
- Treaty of Versailles
- Alpal
- Lesson Writer
- Signals 1.2
- Transforms
- Windows
- Modulation
- Vocabulary
- Perichart
- Drexel Plot
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