If you're looking for old copies of M$ Winders...
...look for old hardware discount houses.
If I remember correctly, there were originally Mouse-Windows bundles.
Nowadays they are available at about $29. Hardware houses were only
seeing it from a HW perspective.
~pete
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Patricia E.Clark wrote:
> >One legal? source of old software is www.recycledsoftware.com, they
> >are in Las Vegas and you can dl a price list. I have never dealt with
> >them so use at your own risk. Their prices seem high for some things,
> >and maybe not so bad for others. It would be nice if MS wasn't so
> >greedy, and made obsolete software available to individuals at a realistic
> >price. Who can afford to pay $180 for an operating system for a $200
> >machine? I'm sure MS has recovered it's development cost for Win3.x and
> >Win95, and probably turned a profit.
>
> My autistic son wants the system to run one particular game. He earns a
> living stocking part-time at K-Mart. The computer was free. This is
> ridiculous.
>
> Thank you everyone. I don't know what my son will do at this point. He is
> frustrated. Maybe he'll learn to deal with the computer himself and not
> need me to intervene. I don't know if he can do that.
>
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