The Handbook of DEC Handbooks - status report.

A while back many of you helped me compile a long list of DEC handbooks. I want to publish a beautiful book about them and it would also be a collector's guide. Well our combined efforts needed both more information to complete the list and it also needed an authority to confirm the completeness of our list. To do this I contacted a number of people at DEC/Compaq and finally got to a Mr. Stephen Dougherty. He was excited about the project and told me to get back to him in a week. This would give me time do some internal exploring. That was 2 months ago. His mail doesn't bounce back so he must still be working for Compaq, but he isn't replying. Thus the project is on hold. My investigation did some good though. The photo-archivist at Compaq was about to finalize arrangements to transfer DEC's archives to MIT when I introduced them to the Charles Babbage Institute. It doesn't matter who gets the photographs as long as they are preserved, but at least now, with the advice and encouragement of the professionals at the CBI, we will hopefully discover that all sorts of other important DEC memorabilia will be preserved. Take care ya'all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Kevin Stumpf * Unusual systems * www.unusual.on.ca +1.519.744.2900 * EST/EDT GMT - 5 Collector - Commercial Mainframes & Minicomputers from the 50s, 60s, & 70s and control panels and consoles. Author & Publisher - A Guide to Collecting Computers & Computer Collectibles * ISBN 0-9684244-0-6 .