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Title: Todays Haul: Software
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 13 August 2010, 08:29:31: At work they were throwing away LOTS and LOTS of old software. So, of course, I took it. Here's what I got:

14 unused packs of Autocad 2004
Nero 5
Adaptec Toast CD burning software
Historian
Adobe GoLive CS
Roxio Easy Media Creator 7
VoicePad
Visual Age for Java (IBM Edition)
Visual C++ 6.0
Macromedia Web Design Studio 4
Adobe Digital Video Collection
Dell Dimension documentation and CD's (From sometime around 2001)
DataCAD from Cadkey for DOS (New in the wrapper).

All the software I got totaled about 6 very big boxes. I also got two rackmount UPS's.

I also brutally murdered a kernal-panicked eMac for its 40GB hard disk.
Title: Todays Haul: Software
Post by: EverythingIBM on Fri, 13 August 2010, 18:26:35: Our school threw out a lot of old floppy software (some of which was very good), but it was all for macs. Not DOS. oh well....

I just took the floppies and formatted them to be used in windows.

It's interesting they throw out software that wasn't even used; such a waste of money.
Title: Todays Haul: Software
Post by: microsoft windows on Fri, 13 August 2010, 18:28:47: Yeah. I got a new, unopened box of CAD from 1988. And another from '94. And 14 unused packs of AutoCAD '04.
Title: Todays Haul: Software
Post by: D-EJ915 on Fri, 13 August 2010, 20:54:03: I picked up a shrink-wrapped version of Office 97 SBE, kind of funny finding that but the place had tons of old stuff where it was.
Title: Todays Haul: Software
Post by: microsoft windows on Sat, 14 August 2010, 08:34:50: Office 97 is good software despite its age. Do you use it?
Title: Todays Haul: Software
Post by: D-EJ915 on Sat, 14 August 2010, 13:06:57: No, I use openoffice on my desktop whenever I have to but I have 2003, 2007 and 2010 on my various other computers and 95 on a 95 OSR2 virtual machine. My dad uses 97 Pro.
Title: Todays Haul: Software
Post by: microsoft windows on Sun, 15 August 2010, 20:02:31: I used to use Openoffice, but I got sick of having to keep downloading it and updating it. So I just went back to '97.