26 Aug
2020
26 Aug
'20
11:14 p.m.
On 8/26/20 11:10 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
replying to Herb Johnson:
A major offshoot of user groups/clubs was shareware. SIG/M was a library of over 100: 8" floppies freely shared by the CP/M groups. There were IBM 1130 groups in the 70s that shared software and newsletters. SHARE was for IBM mainframe folks to share software, libraries, documentation, etc.
SHARE is still going strong; last year's was here in Pittsburgh. It was so huge that it snarled traffic in and around the city for the entire week. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA