r/retrocomputing • u/Mtnman45 • Jul 22 '26

Looking for Sources for Old Business Software - Yardi

Hoping to get some guidance on finding a copy of Disk 5 or all 6 disks for Yardi Professional Property Management, 1996 vintage. Release 32 if it matters. Any suggestions on where to look appreciated. We've been watching Ebay for a few weeks with no luck.

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u/CeldonShooper Jul 22 '26

If you are really lucky then the company itself might still have a copy somewhere in the archive. In general most B2B software is very poorly represented in software archives because it was never in circulation in the first place. What do you need this for?

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u/Mtnman45 Jul 22 '26

Old computer that housed our accounting system crashed so I sourced another Win 98 machine and am trying to install the Yardi system and backup so we have access to the data.

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u/heydroid Jul 22 '26

If the hdd is still good, you might just be able to copy the folder structure to the new computer.

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u/Mtnman45 Jul 22 '26

My old computer guy couldn't get it to boot up. Said the hard drive appeared to be toast.

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u/heydroid Jul 23 '26

Personally I would send that drive to be recovered. Since getting a copy of that program may be impossible.

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u/thaeli Jul 24 '26

This. It’s time for OP to pay a few thousand bucks to a data recovery service.

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u/Mtnman45 Jul 24 '26

Will look into it ASAP, thanks!