[PLUG-TALK] Where to find legit used copy of M$ Visual C 4.0?

[Keith Lofstrom]

To the rest of you offended by the mere mention of M$ on PLUG-talk
... well, er, you are right.  I hope to escape the slime pit soon!
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On 7/7/07, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> A few years ago, I ditched all my copies of Microsoft compilers and
> tools.  Now, as the first step in migrating a large program suite
> to GNU C++ on windows and then to Linux, I need to find a copy of
> M$ Visual C++ 4.0, the environment the app was written for.  Does
> anyone have a copy (with key AND license) that they are willing to
> sell to me?  I don't want to bend any laws or legitimate license
> restrictions, so I want a bona fide copy with the original disks.
> With luck, in a few months the software will be ported and I won't
> be needing M$ again.

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:44:50PM -0700, Larry Brigman wrote:
> There is another way.  An MSDN account.  This allows you to
> download, install and use old programs that are no longer
> available.  If you have a newer version (any paid version)
> of the Visual tools suite, an MSDN account gets you where you
> want to be.  I had to do this several years ago when I was in
> the same boat.  We had > Visual Studio 6 and a company MSDN
> account that we used to download the Visual C++ 4.0 get the 
> job done.

It's late and maybe I don't know the right place to look at
the MSDN website, but it appears from:

http://www.microsoft.com/products/info/list.aspx?view=22&pcid=515c9859-958b-4433-b4f9-91f37258ca2f&type=old&sortcolumn=0&sort=0&page99=0

... that they don't go back very far;  one or two versions perhaps.
Is there someplace to find the older stuff?  Beyond the cost of the
Visual tools suite ($300?) and MSDN Library ($200/yr), what does
this cost?

I would rather buy a PLUG member's old version of Vis.C++ 4.0 for
$80 or so, and keep the money within our community, if I can do
so legitimately.  At least I don't have to inform Redmond of my  
existence if I do that;  I worry that the recent stuff requires
net activation, and may barf if run with a VMWare W2Ksp4 instance.

Keith

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