S100 archive? replies marcus

Hi Kelly, To answer your comments from cctalk/cctech ... and to put things into context ... As a passionate computer person I have (over the last 5 years) tried to do something with my fond memories of the S100 days and in particular my Cromemco restoration project. I started to collect and scan my personal Cromemco documents and then some of the other peripherals and disks I was using. Before I knew it I was getting carried away and starting my own private archive. Things grew from there and I started to add other publically available archives. I don't store anything that I was not really involved or fascinated with. So for example DEC VAX and PDP stuff .. really no, the IBM VM370 CMS command guide ... really yes. The Cromemco RDOS 1.0 Instruction manual 1.0 .. I get a little misty eyed. The actual root of the S100 stuff is http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/index.html . Initially it was broadcast solely on port 8217 but now also on port 80 since people kept complaining about access (especially from behind corporate firewalls). Off topic is the fact that anybody who works with AIX, Backup, TSM, Storage or SAN should also be interested, since <cd ../computers > : your secret and my daily reference to the very best documentation in these areas. It's certainly not a bragging site and yes, some of the information is from other places, but it's a good reference for me and believe me I have spent hundreds of dollars and thousands of hours (yes really) producing high quality, text searchable PDF scans. I'm probably doing something wrong but uncle Google still does not index most of it correctly, but if you poke around there is a lot there. There is a CREDITS directory so if it's something that you'd like crediting or needs removing then you just have to ask. It seems the older I get the more nostalgia tugs harder and this is a good way to for me to remember the "good old days" when you perhaps felt you might understand it all from that TMS5501 on the TUART to the IOP Z80 code running to support those tightly offloaded processes, to the output to port FFH to switch the XPU from Z80 to 68010 mode or the rewiring and code insertion needed to support Tandon 8 inch drives over Persci under CDOS and CROMIX. Today I know too many software "experts" who never wrote a program let alone a compiler or hardware experts who never even used a soldering iron. It's shocking! And for the record (Ann and Kelly) , we absolutely love cats Kind regards, Marcus Bennett (and agata)