I should add that this is not so much about "collecting" as much as 
"can't throw anything away".  :-)

But, it's really instructive to fire up these old systems from time to 
time to remind oneself what was achievable with (relatively) nothing 
compared to what we have today.

On Jan 17, 2004, at 8:42 PM, Dave Lowry wrote:

> Many, many years ago I purchased, for the princely sum of US$50, 
> Apple's Smalltalk-80.  Someone at Apple, maybe Dan, tried to talk me 
> out of it because the system was so "researchy".  Does anyone still 
> have disks or disk images so that this could be run again in vMac or 
> on and old Mac?
>
> Also, for the other software archeologists on the list, I still have 
> running copies of Methods, ST/V 286, and ST/V Mac.
>
> -Dave
>
>