24 Sep
2015
24 Sep
'15
3:12 p.m.
On 2015-09-25 00:04, Al Kossow wrote:
On 9/24/15 7:11 AM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Several RSX manuals have important color coding. Some manuals have both
black, red and blue text. Others have sections with a light red or gray
background.
I have paper versions of them. Unfortunately, all scanned manuals I've
seen have been plain b/w. Also, bitmaps, and not OCRed. :-(
Johnny
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While I understand that a number of individuals
would appreciate
their own dead tree versions, before they arrive at that good
home of an interested individual, would there be any interest
in adding them the bitsavers archive? From memory, I suspect
that there is:
I've been holding off on any additional PDP-11 scanning to see what Alan
Frisbie ends up taking care of.
The one exception is an RSX-11M 4.0 manual set, which I'm currently
experimenting on trying to get
decent quality reasonably small sized pdfs with colored text. There are
some manuals, like the DEC
FORTRAN reference, that really need preservation in color.
I'm getting reasonable results with 4bpp indexed color .pngs