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Fun story: My wife's grandfather was a salesman for WordPerfect back in the 1980s. He passed away roughly 15 years ago, but her grandmother still had a bunch of
by Fwirt 5y ago
Fun story: My wife's grandfather was a salesman for WordPerfect back in the 1980s. He passed away roughly 15 years ago, but her grandmother still had a bunch of his stuff above her garage. When we were cleaning it out a couple years ago we found boxed/sealed sample copies of WordPerfect for every platform (Tandy/Apple II/DOS/etc.) all the way from the days when it was still published by SSI Software (version 1.x) up though 6.0 or so. There were also some dead-ended WordPerfect products (MathPerfect?), a bunch of branded WordPerfect conference swag (WordPerfect pocket calculators/mousepads/folios/etc.) and I think a couple quarterly sales reports and recruiting pamphlets. I tried to see if various computing museums wanted it, but nobody would take it. As far as I know it's still all sitting in a shed at my in-laws, can anybody think of something to do with it? It's ultimately destined for the dumpster, a younger me would have been appalled but at this point in my life I don't have the energy to worry about the detritus of a bygone corporation.
- tyingq 5y agoI would guess they would sell pretty fast on eBay, and likely to someone that would appreciate them.
- Fwirt 5y agoThe calculators sold pretty well, but the boxed software is pretty heavy and only appeals to a very specific audience. I think I found a few examples of auctions that ended without a single bid and figured it wasn't worth the trouble. I would be surprised if got many bids, but I guess I could give it a shot.
- wcarss 5y agoMaybe a lot of effort for little reward here, but you could always try contacting someone like LGR[1] and offer to send some for the purposes of making a video to show some of them off being unboxed and then used on their original hardware. In some senses, that might be about as good as sending it to a museum! 1 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLx053rWZxCiYWsBETgdKrQ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLx053rWZxCiYWsBETgdKrQ
- ipaddr 5y agoI collect boxed software. I wasn't aware of your auction. In some ways auctions work against a product like this because this is an impulse buy now item. I would repost an auction now that hw is aware.
- SwimSwimHungry 5y agoI might be interested. Definitely consider posting some of this on eBay and I'd be happy to give it a look. :)
- easrng 5y agoAsk the Internet Archive if they want them.
- Firehawke 5y agoThis, contact Jason Scott (@Textfiles on Twitter, www.textfiles.com) and he'll probably hook you up with someone in a matter of 24 hours.
- dbt00 5y agoI'd hit up Jason Scott, textfiles.com or twitter.com/textfiles.