20 Sep
1999
20 Sep
'99
4:24 p.m.
Well, here's a list of what doc I've looked at so far, and, God be thanked,
that's most of it.
The format isTITLE followed by ORDER NUMBER # followed by number if more
than 1.
8086/8087/8088 MACRO ASSEMBLER OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS 121624-001 rev A
A USER'S GUIDE TO PROGRAM MANAGEMENT TOOLS 121958-00
ALTER TEXT EDITOR USER'S GUIDE 121956-001
BASIC-80 REFERENCE MANUAL 9800758-02
GUIDE TO WRITING DEVICE DRIVERS FOR THE iRMX 86 AND iRMX 88 I/O SYSTEMS
142926-003
INTELLEC DOUBLE DENSITY DISKETTE OPERATING SYSTEM HARDWARE REFERENCE MANUAL
98-422A
INTELLEC SERIES II MICROCOMPUTER DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM HARDWARE INTERFACE
MANUAL 9800555-02 rev B 2
INTELLEC SERIES III MICROCOMPUTER DEVELOPMENT CONSOLE OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS
121609-002 rev B
INTRODUCTION TO THE iRMX 86 OPERATING SYSTEM 9803124-03
iRMX 86 BASIC I/O SYSTEM REFERENCE MANUAL 9803123-04
iRMX 86 CONFIGURATION GUIDE 9803126-04
iRMX 86 DEBUGGER REFERENCE MANUAL 143323-001
iRMX 86 EXTENDED I/O SYSTEM REFERENCE MANUAL 143308-001
iRMX 86 INSTALLATION GUIDE 983125-04
iRMX 86 NUCLEUS REFERENCE MANUAL 9803122-03
iRMX 86 PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES 142982-002
iRMX 86 SYSTEM DEBUG MONITOR REFERENCE MANUAL 143908-001
ISIS-II CREDIT CRT-BASED TEXT EDITOR USER'S GUIDE 9800902-02
ISIS-II PL/M-80 COMPILER OPERATOR'S MANUAL 98-300B
ISIS-II USER'S GUIDE 9800306-06 rev F 2
MCS-80/85 UTILITIES USER'S GUIDE 121617-001 rev A
MCS-86 ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE CONVERTER OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ISIS-II USERS
9800624-02
MCS-86 MACRO ASSEMBLER OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS FOR ISIS-II USERS 9800641-02
MCS-86 MACRO ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE REFERENCE MANUAL 9800640-02
PASCAL-86 USER'S GUIDE 121539-003
PL/M-80 PROGRAMMING MANUAL 9800268B 2
PL/M-86 PROGRAMMING MANUAL FOR 8080/8085-BASED DEVELOPMENT SYSTEMS
9800466-03 rev C 3
There are only one or two other documents unless I discover a box or two
more.
Though the containter with the FD's says iAPX sources, I see no reference
directly to iAPX on most of them. I've not examined them, however.
For now, I've agreed to give the manuals to Hans Franke. I don't have time
between now and VCF to get these scanned, so I'd like to arrange to get them
scanned and published on some fairly stabile web site somewhere, so any help
with the latter portion of this task would be appreciated. Since there's
such a large volume of this stuff (about a 30-35 cm high stack (12"-14")) I
was hoping to have it hauled out by someone going to VCF.
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: morrison(a)t-iii.com <morrison(a)t-iii.com>
To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Cc: edick(a)idcomm.com <edick(a)idcomm.com>
Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 12:14 PM
Subject: RE: Intel OS DOC and SOURCE
Not sure if this is relevant, but the Xerox S/W that
comes with many
scanners likes to read uncompressed TIFFs.
Neil Morrison
email:morrison@t-iii.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Erlacher [SMTP:edick@idcomm.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:41 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: Intel OS DOC and SOURCE
>
> Well, I like my scanner because it has a sheetfeeder and because it's
> legal
> size, but, alas, it's only capable of a limited range of formats. After
> all, I've had the thing for nearly ten years. Now, if you have a way to
> massage the old style TIFF (targa) files into something better, perhaps
> that
> would be the thing to do.
>
> A lot depends on what requirements the TBD web host will have, and I'll
> perhaps hold off until a site is found.
>
> OTOH, I did sort of allow that since Hans Franke is going to be at the
> VCF,
> though I'm not, I can arrange to get this stuff hauled out there for him
> by
> someone from here who's going. I will have to see whether he's willing
to
> get this stuff scanned and appropriately
compressed, then made available
> via
> the web.
>
> Wait and see . . .
>
> Dick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com>
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
> Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 6:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Intel OS DOC and SOURCE
>
>
> >"Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com> wrote:
> >> If there were a web site which would accomodate the many thousands of
> pages
> >> involved here I'd consider scanning the stuff and forwarding the
> bitmaps
> to
> >> whoever wants them. Now, keep in mind that a typical TIFF of a
printed
> page
> >> in single-bit format is about 1 MB in size, and we're looking at a
> 1-2'-high
> >> stack of paper with both sides printed in most cases. LEt's see. . .
a
> ream
> >> is about 1-3/4" = 500 sheets . . . let's say 10 reams . . . so
we're
> looking
> >> at 10 GB, right (GAWD! . . . I hope I've miscalculated!)
> >
> >No, for text and line art, just use TIFF Class F Group 4 compression.
> >It's lossless, and for typical pages at 300 DPI it's only about 50K.
> >Intricate pages somtimes wind up around 100K-120K.
> >
> >And although not all software can deal with that format, the Group 4
> >fax compression is one of the native formats for PDF, so I now supply
> >all of my scanned documents as PDF files. For a few examples, see:
> > http://www.36bit.org/dec/
> >
> >Yes, I know that some people hate PDF format, and that you can't read
> >them on a Commodore 64 or PDP-11/05. To which I say, too bad. I got
> >many more complaints about other formats. Some people even wanted text
> >pages in JPEG format, which is just about the worst conceivable format
> >for them, since JPEG is a lossy format designed for continuous tone
> >images.
> >
> >I've hacked a version of the imagepdf program from Thomas Metz's PDFLIB
> >to directly import TIFF Class F Group 4 files into PDF files without
> >decompressing them, so that it's not necessary to buy the $300 Acrobat
> >program from Adobe.
> >
> >Eric