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title: "Share-Ware: The T/S Lifeline?"
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excerpt: "Software has always been a difficult commodity to market and distribute. Users want new software, they want support for their software purchases. What's more, EVERY computer buff likes to build up a big library of programs. Most are never or rarely used, but there is a certain element of the pack rat in all of…"
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Software has always been a difficult commodity to market and distribute. Users want new software, they want support for their software purchases. What’s more, EVERY computer buff likes to build up a big library of programs. Most are never or rarely used, but there is a certain element of the pack rat in all of us.

Suppliers for obsolete computers spend time and effort to produce new products for a dwindling customer base. It has been proven again and again that one stands a slim chance of making a profit in these”low-end” computers. Still, some try. As long as there are buyers, there will be sellers, However, dealers and programmers want their efforts to be financially worthwhile.