If anyone is interested, please politely contact original poster, not me.
Jay West
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Howes" <jim.howes at prosig.com>
To: <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 6:10 AM
Subject: Various source/documentation microfische
I've built up a list of assorted stuff that you
may be interested in.
I don't have a microfische reader, and get odd looks at my local library
when I nip in there to use theirs (and they are going over to
computerised indexes, so the fische readers are going soon (note to
self: beg/borrow/rehome/steal one!).
I made a list a few years ago. I've stuffed it one the web. URL below.
The lines in this text file are mainly in this format:
Group name (various different manuals for a particular device share the
same title)
Manual/source description, possibly with serial numbers or other
references, most of which I'm not sure of the meaning of.
Date (somewhere between OCT76 and OCT81)
Number of fisches in this set
DEC Part number
---
For instance:
PDP11 MOS/CORE G124K EXER CZKMAF0 SEP79 1 AH-8851F-MC
or
VAX/VMS 4.4 VAX/VMS V2.4 SOURCE LISTINGS MCRF ????? 536
AH-HP48A-SE
(hmm. seems I made a typo on that one). I remember VMS 4.4, just
typing &<RETURN> at the command line would log you out with reserved
operand error and a stack dump. I think the VMS4.4 sources may be
elsewhere at the moment, it's such a long time since I looked at them.
Anyway, the file is archived here:
http://www.notout.demon.co.uk/fische.txt
I think, on the whole, I'd rather keep hold of these, but will happily
lend them to people who make reasonable requests (and supply stamped
addressed envelopes for instance). However, if a good cause would like
to take them and catalogue them properly and use them for the benefit of
DEC history as a whole, then I'll certainly consider it.
I'm not sure of the copyright issues regarding the VMS Source listings.
I did try asking a while ago, but got no reply.
I'm based in Portsmouth, UK.
Regards,
Jim