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From: rob.kolstad(a)gmail.com
To: van.snyder(a)sbcglobal.net
Subject: Bendix G-15 Documentation
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2022 19:09:34 -0600
Bendix G-15 DocumentationDear Fellow G-15 Enthusiast,
I'm Rob Kolstad, and I am sending you this little informational blurb
because I think you are interested in Bendix G-15 projects (sometimes
because I have seen someone messaged you about such things in the last
two decades). Feel free to send me an 'unsub' note to never hear again
about such things.
This note announces the beta test of the first set of the documentation
collection:
https://rbk.delosent.com/g15doc.html
The collection includes 161 source documents (some duplicates)
comprising some 10,566 pages (including blanks). I have broken some of
the source documents into their constituent sub-documents (e.g., the
Technical Application Memos) for easy access, yielding 1,414 documents
in total.
The collection is by no means complete (coming soon: good large-format
schematics and perhaps a search bar), but it's a good start. I'll try
to scan the rest before the year is out.
The fine folks at the System Source Computer Museum in Baltimore have
gained, at least for now, several Bendix G-15's (and peripherals) along
with more than two dozen boxes of Bendix documentation mingled with
documentation of a large highway engineering firm's projects. The
collection also has hundreds of paper tapes in fabulous condition.
I scanned a fraction of these documents back in June and combined them
with my personal collection (thanks to Bob Sander-Cederlof in Texas)
and the documents from
bitsavers.org and the Computer History Museum
(among others).
This documentation section forms one of the main parts of the soon-to-
be-released (2022)
bendixg15.com website for all things G-15, including
software, hardware/restorations, emulators, news, photos, and notes.
Please feel free to check out the documents. I'll let you know in a few
months when the general web-site is available. Comments, questions, and
suggestions are always welcome.
RK
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