19 May
2005
19 May
'05
11:43 a.m.
From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 1:12 PM
Amen, when the SMC link to the chips was posted I downloaded a copy. I was
also interested in the other chips in the same set (1010,2010, etc).
I decided to check bitsavers and there they were (thanks Al), all in the
westerndigital folder as databooks, etc. Several megabytes later I had what
I wanted.
On a separate post I mentioned cross support/cross linking. It was my
clumsy way of saying indexing. I would be nice if people pitched in and
just did it. I may make a list of all of the chips listed in the individual
PDF's that Al has posted for the westerndigital datasheets. If Al then
posts this index with the PDF's (or creates an index folder) so the
googlebot can scan it then a google search would point you where to get it.
Simple with the task easily shared amoung many people.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
From:
"Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
On Thu, 19 May 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi
It works surprisingly well but it still misses a lot.
Like when I was looking for the data sheets of the WD1100V-01.
The information was out there, it just wasn't indexed.
Most document writing programs today have that automatic
indexing by marking things as you go along to place in
the index. It requires that someone actually realizes
what needs to be indexed. Then comes the problem of cross
references. Add to that synonyms.
I was looking through the directories of one of the images
I'd captured from the Polymorphic stuff and found that
a disk labeled "GAMES" contained a version of Forth.
That may have been the persons personal feelings
about it but it was not good indexing.
My guess is that Google is missing 90 to 95% of the
relevant information out there. If you include site links
on individual pages that improves to about 85% at best.
Now, add to that the problem of something that exist
but gets somehow placed in the wrong place.
Indexing will be the biggest challenge!
Dwight In any case, these are all academic in
comparison to the problems
of indexing. I don't even have the beginings of how to deal
with that problem.
Google :)