Re: Asimov Uploads..

[Chris M <chris@sorry.no.spam.com>]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:43:34 GMT, Dick Sisco <dsisco@mchsi.com> wrote:

>On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 12:54:45 -0400, Jeff Blakeney
><CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:33:55 GMT, "Steve \"Usotsuki\" Nickolas"
>><usotsuki@verizon.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Now all I have to do is wait for them to enter the main archive.
>>
>>And possibly wait for MECC to come along and ask for them to be
>>removed which they have done in the past.
>
>I would be very surprised if MECC objected as the company no longer
>exists.  They were swallowed up by Softkey International in 1995 and
>the company name "MECC" was discontinued the next year,  In 1999 the
>Minneapolis offices of what had been MECC closed.  The last I heard,
>Mattel had purchased Softkey International (by then renamed The
>Learning Company), but as far as I know, they are not actively in the
>software business.
>
>At least one of the motivations for objecting to including MECC Apple
>II software on archive sites was the fact that "Oregon Trail"  was one
>of those titles.  MECC was very protective of the title (they were
>still producing Mac and Windows versions).  They were also still
>producing Apple II software until at least 1995 (although there might
>have been a small release in 1996, but that would have been just
>repackaged National Geographic titles).
>
>I can't promise you that Mattel (or whoever owns the titles now won't
>object), but the last employee with an Apple II in his cube and the
>only one still paying any attention to the Apple II newsgroups and
>archives,  left the company in 1997.
>
>--Dick Sisco
>(former MECC Programmer)

Thanks for the info.  Hopefully no one will really care.  Lord knows
if MECC has original copies stashed away safely or not-- and the
titles I have are on disks that are just getting older.  I'd just like
to see as much Apple II software saved as possible.  Lord knows that
many people consider it junk from yesterday and have no problem
throwing them into the local landfill.  

// CHRIS