I think it is a shame that so much software has been lost from the 80's (and late 70's ). There was a great article I read a few years ago about the loss of history from this era. Most programmers didn't save their work or if they did they could not access it anymore because the media has changed so much. Of course, many of the programmers are no longer with us. Such a great loss...
Update:
Here is a link to an OSNews article on Atari ST users who paid to have an old HD recovered so they could get the last build of Geneva/NeoDesk. One ST user paid for the recovery and others pitched in after the fact. Pretty neat story. I'm glad they were able to rescue this before it it was gone forever.
http://www.osnews.com/story/29903/Atari_ST_multitasking_OS_Geneva_NeoDesk_to_be_open_sourced
