Corvus Concept, Varian 620/L

Al Kossow has scanned a couple of manuals that I've had sitting around for a while and put 'em up on the net. He's not on the list but says it's OK to tell y'all. He'd also like to know about Varian 620/L software and documentation. If you have some or know something about it, send him e-mail at aek(a)spies.com. Feel free to cc: me, I'm interested too but not real knowledgeable. OK, on to the Corvus manuals. Note each file is a 9MB PDF and these may not be the ideal manuals for you to learn about the Corvus Concept. Read the following descriptions before downloading. The Service Manual is just what it says it is; if you have a broken Concept or want to know what to do about one this manual will probably be of interest. The Hardware Reference includes the theory of operation document for the Concept hardware, a section on how write code to talk to the Omninet interface, and a section on the Corvus hard disk interface which addresses both the electrical signals on the interface and the communication between the computer and hard disk. Reading the latter made me think that it should be possible to talk to a Corvus hard disk (at least at a disk-block level) with a sufficiently bi-directional IBM PC flavor parallel port or similar interface, a (passive) cable, and some software that I haven't got around to writing yet. http://www.spies.com/aek/Corvus/ConceptHWRef.pdf - Corvus Concept Hardware Reference manual http://www.spies.com/aek/Corvus/ConceptServiceMan.pdf - Corvus Concept Service Manual Thanks for doing the work of scanning may be directed to aek(a)spies.com. Flames about PDF format can be sent to me. I won't really care either but sufficiently good flames might move me to ask Al whether he has raw files that I can do something with in my copious free time (ha ha). -Frank McConnell