7 Aug
1999
7 Aug
'99
7:28 a.m.
No Sellam, no one took the time to reverse engineer
TSB....
This manual is called 2000E IMS (Internals Maintenance Specification). It
was written by HP, and I'm pretty certain it was used to train new
programmers who were to work on the TSB code itself. It's just way too
detailed (and most of it printed too nicely) to be someone just doing some
reverse engineering.
I'll probably get to scanning a few parts of it in next week.
But you said it was _hand written_? That sounds rather counter-productive.
...not that I'm complaining about the fact that you have it, of course. I'd
be fascinated to see it. Someone else said correctly that this kind of docu-
mentation was rare. It seems to me that's especially true about HP, which
is a shame since their stuff's so well-designed. I could be wrong about
that impression though.
Are you coming to the VCF? Or if not, I wonder if there will be any 2100
hardware there?
-- Derek