If anybody wants any DEC items brought up there for pickup or to do any
trading, please let me know so I can plan accordingly.
If you want to stop by here, please make arrangements ASAP. I plan on
going up Friday afternoon and returning Saturday evening.
Thanks, Paul
> From: Antonio Carlini
> I think the best thing to do would be to get the data into manx. Manx
> feels like the right tool for finding manuals.
Yes, I agree. Replicating the data, in a system which isn't organized to
hold it (i.e. the CHWiki) would be a desperation move, only to be taken
if nothing else was available.
> From: Matt Burke
> I think his address is legalize at xmission.com.
Ah, thanks very much for that; I'll give that a whirl.
> Let me know how you get on
I will report back here (hopefully there will be news).
Noel
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 superhero itself? :)
On the other side, for ignorant people like me, not knowing exactly what
and where find the right document, browsing over the sea of documents, and
over several sites (without knowing the exact list of addresses either)
could be difficult...
I really appreciate the folder sorting based of bitsavers, while other
archives with a flat list of files with the bare document code (no human
readable title) really needs an index at least...
I could scan all of my documents with a specified resolution and lossless
compression, even if these are duplicates of Carlini's, so these can be
added to bitsavers.
Could it be considered useful?
Thanks
Andrea
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
> 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
bringing it all to one location, maybe we just need a single site with
pointers to them all. Oh, wait...
I guess I should see if Richard Thomson (he's the last name on:
http://manx-docs.org/about.php
so I assume it's still him) needs/could use help updating Manx content; anyone
know how to reach him (no contact info anywhere on the site)?
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 other stuff on Bitsavers (e.g. PDP-10, -11 software, all the
VAX stuff - and that's just DEC).
Noel
> 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 tapes) so badly
they had to build entirely new packaging for it.
Assume _all_ shippers will throw your item across the room, and pack
accordingly - because they will.
Noel
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 anyone wants either of these let me know (San Diego area of California). If I hear nothing both will go to the electronic recycler next Saturday.
David
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 available on other sites, etc
Now the question: why collected manuals from other sites couldn't be added
to bitsavers too?
Thanks
Andrea
Today I got home and my Mouser order had arrived. I soldered in the new
6-position DIP switch and popped a new 1488 in the socket. Nice RS232 data
coming out... for about 10 seconds, then the transmit data line went to
around +2 volts and stayed there. WTF. Tried another one, same thing. Went
back to the first new chip, same thing - so it's not blown (and maybe the
old one wasn't either).
OK, it has to be the power supplies. Again.
Sure enough, +12 was sinking slowly until it was near zero at which point
the RS232 output basically went floating...
This looked familiar and it didn't take long to discover that the CT on the
transformer for the + and - 12 volt supplies was open again!! This time it
was the wire from the transformer broken as it entered the Molex connector.
Fixed that, back in business. I am amazed that none of the epoxy drop
tantalums on the high leg with the open neutral have blown. Maybe they're
open circuit :)
Also I don't know what gorilla at the salvage place was
connecting/disconnecting until he found a combo of base, board and monitor
that worked.
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