Hello Nigel,
the scanning of the Univac documents is almost complete, except for the schematics. This
has still to be done. All in all, there are almost 60 binders of documentation with the
schematics, but 20 of them are the small binder type (A5).
I asked the german "deutsche Museum", if they are interested in the rather
complete documentation, but unfortunately, they aren't.
Museums in the US ask the donators to pay for the shipment and I'm not gonna do that
for these documents, considering the time, it already took me to scan everything and to
put it on bitsavers this year.
Are you still interested in the docs?
If you want more detailed information about them, let me know and I'll provide you
with a list of the docs in near future. You do not need to take everything, though it
would be good to know, that things go concentrated to a place where such a machine is
still on site.
I'd like to get rid of the docs in the upcoming months, as I need to change locations
this summer.
Kind regards,
Pierre
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Von: Nigel Williams <nigel.d.williams at gmail.com>
An: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Gesendet: 23:42 Sonntag, 11.November 2012
Betreff: Re: Huge lot of Univac/Unisys DCP / System-80 series manuals available soon
wonderful news Pierre! good work on what sounds to be a Herculean scanning
project.
I have half of a Unisys System 80/7E (it is actually a Unisys A-series A4
with a different microcode load to support the System 80 ISA). I'm hoping
to get the remainder of the system sometime in the next year, however aside
from a brochure I have zero documentation for the system and have found
very little about OS3 itself.
I will be glad to make use of the PDFs once they are available (thank you
for submitting them to bitsavers) and would like to see the printed
material go to a formal organisation for long term preservation. However if
no one steps up then I can be a custodian-of-last-resort rather than seeing
the material discarded.
cheers,
nigel.
www.retroComputingTasmania.com
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:20 AM, P Gebhardt <p.gebhardt at ymail.com> wrote:
I just wanted to make sure the content is scanned
and thus saved and as I
don't have the hardware and therefore no use for it, I'd like to give the
documentation away to somebody who is interested in that.