7 Nov
2012
7 Nov
'12
9:52 p.m.
From: Rich Alderson
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 11:39 AM
From: Mike Cesari
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:32 PM
> On Nov 6, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Rich Alderson
<RichA at vulcan.com> wrote:
>> There are no COBOL manuals on the PDP10
portion of Bitsavers at the
>> moment.
> There is a COBOL-74 manual on bitsavers here:
> dec/pdp10/TOPS10_softwareNotebooks/vol10
Wow. I can't believe that I missed that, I really
can't. There are
also COBOL-68 manuals in the dec/pdp10/TOPS10 directory, as well as
one so named explicitly in vol9.
Well, the COBOL-74 manual on Bitsavers is trashed beyond recovery, by
DEC themselves it would appear.
The manual is consecutively page-numbered, including pages from 2
updates. There are missing pages (no description of the RETURN
verb, for example, though it's in the index) and duplicated pages
in different faces. It's unusable as it stands.
I can probably get what I need from the COBOL-68 manual. Just
refreshing some bits in my tired old brain.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/