24 Oct
1998
24 Oct
'98
2:59 p.m.
On 24 Oct 1998, Eric Smith wrote:
Most of this stuff *is* for the Z80... just the two manuals which
seem supplemental and are 8086-specific.
I have tried scanning manuals a few times, sans much luck. Perhaps
you could e-mail me privately with some knowledge on getting text
scanned properly... or maybe my sorry software is braindead in the
text dept. I have tried making jpegs, but by the time they're
composited, tweaked, and compressed, they're mostly illegible. :(
I have an 11x14 Artiscan Z1-1200, if that's helpful. I have a
**huge** pile of pix, books, and doc I'd like to get into a useable
archive for y'all... but the task is daunting and my playtime is
short and mostly spoken for. Sigh.
I asked about TurboDOS, and John Lawson
<jpl15(a)netcom.com> replied:
[snip]
as well as the
'Programmer's Guide', the '8086 Programmer's Guide'
and the '8086 Implementor's Guide'. Then there is the 'EZBAKUP Tape
Utility' and the 'COMPRESS DISK Compression Utility.
TurboDOS for the 8086? I hadn't heard of that. I'm mostly looking for
the Z-80 version, although an 8086 version does sound somewhat interesting.
And
there's too much to copy, at least for me.
My theory has been that if it's worth photocopying, it's worth scanning,
because even though it takes a bit more effort, it will help more people.
I've been scanning DECsystem-10 hardware documentation lately:
http://www.36bit.org/dec/
I'd be delighted to scan TurboDOS documentation
and put it on the web,
but at the moment I've got too much of a backlog.
See above.
Does anyone else on The List require the documentation for
TurboDos 1.4?? If not.. perhaps I should just send this stuff to
Eric. I sure don't need it, and if I do in the future, well, I'll
know just where it is.
Cheers
John