[Coco] Programming in NitrOS-9?

wdg3rd at comcast.net wdg3rd at comcast.net
Tue May 13 14:34:32 EDT 2008


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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>

> For docs, one of us re-printing the complete level 2 book, or scanning ebay 
> for copies is gonna be your best bet.  The book is in a 3" ring mini binder, 
> and overflows the 3" rings quite a bit, so it is not a task we have 
> undertaken just yet, not to mention there could be copyright problems with 
> that cuz Tandy owns them.

That is probably not the case.  As far as I know, Tandy sold all of their software rights along with their computer manufacturing capability to AST Research in 1993.  AST was acquired by Samsung a bit later.  Any Tandy rights are now held by a Korean corporation that probably has no knowledge that the products ever existed.

Despite the orphaned and abandoned nature of the products, under current law the copyrights are in force until sometime around the middle of the century (unless Disney & friends get another extension passed, probably until the sun burns out).
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

These histrionics were probably unnecessary, since there was no reason to think anybody would be watching us with more than casual interest until I made my first move to follow Buchanon's trail, in London.  Still, somebody might check back this far later, and I always feel that if you're going to play a part, you might as well play it all the way, at least in public -- and it's hard to tell what's public and what isn't, these electronic days.
Donald Hamilton, _The Devastators_, 1965



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