I mean, I know several products get bought and/or merged by "new" companies, but what physically happens to them when they are discontinued?
For example, I learned MV on a Prime Information system. The PI product itself was (I believe) written in Fortran. Where is all that Fortran source code now? Sitting in a storage closet somewhere? In a Dumpster years ago? Who ended up with all that paperwork, development tools, tapes, etc etc?
And Prime isn't the only one to have good software that became abandonware/bankruptware. All those other Pick flavors all had a physical home at one point.
Anyone know what happened to any of the actual software when their companies went under?