I don't recall having any reason to pirate the software in those days. Oh, as computers were a major hobby, I picked up an original IBM PC with a RODIME 10MB hard drive - but that was years after that wasn't much of a system. It had disks with it.
Later I got an AST 386sx-16mhz, that one had windows 3.11 on it - but again came with the original system disks - also was not expensive and completely outdated by the time I picked it up.
Because I was buying from surplus houses - they used to have all kinds of extra disks. I bought OS/2 for a song, and got Interleaf publisher even - some nice desktop publishing software.
When I got my powermac 6100 - I even bought Photoshop! LOL, for like $10 bucks. It was sitting in a warehouse - it was the upgrade version, but I just inputted the serial numbers that came with it (but had been markered over) - and wa-la, it installed. I even kept upgrading that up to version 5, before I stopped. Of course the upgrades were costing real money.
All that has changed, the warehouse shop is still in business, but they never have a real deal anymore.
Thanks ebay.
