Hello,
yes, bitsavers and the efforts of Al are invaluable!
Considering that I'm referring only to DEC PDFs, but the archive is indeed
far more vast then this, the time to maintain all of it is way over what
normal people would dedicate to free time jobs... simply that could mean
that Al is a
On 25/08/2019 18:28, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
Starting around the VMS 5.5 era, isn’t anything from then or later on the
Condist documentation CD’s? And thus we don’t have to make a priority for
scanning?
Tim N3QE
The early ones were just in BOOKREADER format, although that can be
On 25/08/2019 15:18, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
I guess if that fails, I could include links to online manuals in CHWiki
pages. That would be a massive campaign, even just the PDP-11 hardware and
PDP-10 hardware (all I'd want to do) would be weeks of works. There's no way I
could do all the
On 8/25/19 10:51 AM, John H. Reinhardt via cctalk wrote:
> That might be getting hard to read
> these days unless you happen to have an OpenVMS machine with DECWindows.
There was a way to translate it to Postscript
Copies of the CDs in that form were on the web for a while, haven't looked
> On Aug 25, 2019, at 2:05 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
>> From: Jon Elson
>
>> I have NEVER had even the SLIGHTEST damage with FedEx, even their
>> ground service. This could just be statistical chance
>
> This. I once had FexEx Ground destroy the entire packaging of a shipment
On 8/25/2019 12:28 PM, Shoppa, Tim via cctalk wrote:
Starting around the VMS 5.5 era, isn’t anything from then or later on the
Condist documentation CD’s? And thus we don’t have to make a priority for
scanning?
Tim N3QE
IIRC, most of the documentation on the ConDists were in DEC's
> Starting around the VMS 5.5 era, isn’t anything from then or later on
> the Condist documentation CD’s? And thus we don’t have to make a
> priority for scanning?
The stuff I have is mostly pre 4.5.
Aaron
Starting around the VMS 5.5 era, isn’t anything from then or later on the
Condist documentation CD’s? And thus we don’t have to make a priority for
scanning?
Tim N3QE
I’ve just come into possession of both of these units.
The Mac has a 20MB internal HD and doesn’t startup. There is no happy mac or
boot chime. The video is just a single line in the middle of the screen.
The HDD spins up and wants to be formatted by any Mac I’ve got that has USB on
it.
If
> From: Al Kossow
> I don't even have time to deal with all of my paper.
Understood. A huge 'thank you' for all the work you have put in, to saving
and making available a massive quantity of old documentation.
Given that we have stuff scattered across a number of sites, rather than
On 8/25/19 12:43 AM, shad via cctalk wrote:
why collected manuals from other sites couldn't be added
to bitsavers too?
With a few exceptions, I don't troll other sites for content.
I don't even have time to deal with all of my paper.
> From: Jon Elson
> I have NEVER had even the SLIGHTEST damage with FedEx, even their
> ground service. This could just be statistical chance
This. I once had FexEx Ground destroy the entire packaging of a shipment (one
of those rigid plastic tubs, sealed closed with those tension
Hello,
I also have a bunch of manuals, mainly for rt11, which aren't available in
bitsavers.
I always thought of bitsavers as the "whole" archive for DEC stuff, however
time ago, sorting these manuals, I found they where available only on Manx
or Antonio Carlini's archive.
Many manuals then are
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