> the later "pdp11 bus hanbook" (which, as mentioned, does not seem to be > online yet, alas)
Arck, I'm a moron; Paul has pointed out to me that this is, in fact, online at Bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/pdp11/handbooks/PDP11_BusHandbook1979.pdf It didn't show up in a couple of pages of results in a Web search for it, though. I have noticed that things on Bitsavers often don't show up high up in Web search results, unless you add 'bitsavers' to the search term. I have been told that at one point Google was 'downgrading' results that used plain HTTP, instead of HTTPS, because they were trying to push people to switch to HTTPS (this was when everyone was hyperventilating over the Snowden revelations). Given the near-ubiquitous use of HTTPS these days, I'd have thought that piece of 'information credit engineering' by our tech overlords was past its 'sell by' date, and now serves primarily to block people from finding the material they are looking for (as here). Noel