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The result was __EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__'''Keep'''. [[User:Eluchil404|Eluchil404]] ([[User talk:Eluchil404|talk]]) 22:24, 7 April 2025 (UTC)<small>([[Wikipedia:Non-admin closure|non-admin closure]])</small>
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* '''Keep'''. It was definitely ''not'' a niche service when it was offered (I used it around 1980), although it was subsequently quickly made obsolete by the Personal Computer. I was about fifteen years old at that time, so most of the users of VSPC will be retired or dead by now, and hence do not bother to digitize old documentation that they may still have. For a service more than 40 years old, the lack of information available ''online'' should not be a killer criterion. The documentation consisted of nice papercover books in A4 format, IIRC, and should still be available from national libraries. VSPC is history worth remembering. --[[User:DrTorstenHenning|DrTorstenHenning]] ([[User talk:DrTorstenHenning|talk]]) 11:06, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
* '''Keep''': Coverage can be found in old [[Computerworld]], [[Computer Weekly]], and [[Datamation]] magazines: [https://archive.org/details/computerworld1011unse_02/mode/2up?q=%22virtual+storage+personal+computing%22] [https://archive.org/details/ComputerWeeklySupplement1980UKEnglish/Oct%2016%201980%2C%20Computer%20Weekly%20Supplement%2C%20%23728%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22virtual+storage+personal+computing%22] [https://books.google.com/books?id=Uy7sCK_QJ9QC&pg=PT16&dq=vspc+ibm&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiv39Sjmb-MAxU3k4kEHeFtHDcQ6wF6BAgHEAE#v=onepage&q=vspc%20ibm&f=false] [https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_datamation_44192572/page/n47/mode/2up?q=vspc+datamation] [[User:Helpful Raccoon|Helpful Raccoon]] ([[User talk:Helpful Raccoon|talk]]) 20:20, 4 April 2025 (UTC) <!--VCB Helpful Raccoon-->
*'''Keep''' per [[User:Helpful Raccoon|Helpful Raccoon]]’s good work. —<span class="nowrap"><span style="font-family:Futura">[[User:A. B.|A. B.]] <sup>([[User talk:A. B.|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/A. B.|contribs]] • [[Special:CentralAuth/A._B.|global count]])</sup></span></span> 21:38, 4 April 2025 (UTC)
* '''Weak keep''' seems historically notable. Sources may be harder to get due to age of topic.[[User:Ramos1990| Ramos1990]] ([[User talk:Ramos1990|talk]])
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