14 Oct
2013
14 Oct
'13
2:24 p.m.
On 14/10/2013 17:33, Liam Proven wrote:
On 13 October 2013 14:22, Dave <dave.g4ugm at
gmail.com> wrote:
It would be love to have a paper copy of this manual. Vintage
mathematical packages are my area of interest and I'll happily pay the
postage, but if some one else would like it I am happy for them to have
it. I have limited space so can only hoard so much junk....
Dave
G4UGM
Thats a slightly older version. IBM manuals
started out with numbers like
"ANN-MMM-VV". I think the letter defines the manual type, most of the ones I
have are "C" which I think are general user manuals, "Y" is an
internals
manual, "A" seems to be hardware , "NN" defines the product, so VM
are 20,
OS/360 are 28, S/360. The next four identify the manual and the last one is
the version. Some time after S/360 came out they added an extra letter on
the front, so "G" manuals are general distributed, "S" manuals were
only
available to licensed users and there are more for "Internal Use Only"
manuals.
So the one on E-Bay was "H20-0205-3" , which is issue "3" of the SSP
manual.
The one I have is "GH20-0205-4" so its later as its Version 4 and its got
the "G" for a general release manual...
but I bet you al knew that...
Well, no, I didn't, but I was puzzled that you
asked me what version
mine was, when the eBay listing contained the IBM code - H20-0205-3.
Anyway, I think I now have 2 takers for the CDC one and one for the
IBM one -- if you do still want the older one, Dave? AFAICS you're in
Manchester, so UK postage shouldn't be too bad...