DEC blanket permission was: Re: Scanning out-of-print books and documentation - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Apr 2000

On Apr 12, 12:45, Pat Barron wrote:
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  On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Roger Ivie wrote:
 >
 > One document that I'm fairly certain is not covered by the blanket
permission
...
  > is a copy of the MSCP specification (!) that I
have tucked away in a drawer
...
   somewhere. Is
DEC still making MSCP hardware? Everything I've used
 recently has been SCSI.

 This is from John Wilson's FTP site, at
 ftp://ftp.dbit.com/pub/pdp8/doc/README:

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 >From the January 1985 Software Documentation Products Directory (EJ-26361-78),
...
  first page:

 3. RIGHT TO COPY

    Beginning January 1, 1985, Digital customers are given a right to copy, at
...
     no charge, any Digital Archival Software
Documentation Publication
    (excluding restricted or third party owned) that we no longer offer for
...
     sale.  However, the copyright is retained as the
exclusive property of
    Digital Equipment Corporation.

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 I'm pretty sure the MSCP spec would have fallen under "restricted" ...

I'm not at all sure it is.  My copy is "MSCP Basic Disk Functions Manual
AA-L619A-TK  Version 1.2  A part of UDA50 Programmer's Doc. Kit QP-905-GZ",
and it has no restrictions indicated, apart from the usual copyright notice
(1982).  On the other hand, Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.6, and 6.10 are listed in
the table of contents as "This section deliberately omitted" :-)

I think the Doc Kit was just two parts.  Anyone know for sure?  The other
part I have is "Storage Systems Diadnostics and Utility Protocol
AA-L620A-TK  Version 1.2  A part of UDA50 Programmer's Doc. Kit QP-905-GZ".

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
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