In article <000001c65375$86623560$c901a8c0 at tempname>, <a.carlini at ntlworld.com> writes: I'm interested in anything that has information on display terminals, graphics terminals or their workstation/development systems. I think that would be these from your list: If you look closer, that 41-pg document is just describing the SBus support for the DAS9200. It isn't general documentation on a DAS9200 itself. I tried looking for other documentation on older Tektronix products through this interface and nothing useful was found. Just notices that all of these things are "end of lifed". -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>

In article <ded268c40603292146x1b216c63j3e0613fb7907425f at mail.gmail.com>, "Paxton Hoag" <innfoclassics at gmail.com> writes: Sweet. This is just the kind of info I was looking for and is consistent with my guesses based on photos and the size/weight of the 4105 -- which is 33 lbs, 20x17x20 plus another 5 lbs for the keyboard. I'll make sure that they keyboards are packed with care if I purchase these... Bitsavers says: "The preferred form for any contributed text scan is as a collection of lossless Group 4 fax compression (ITU-T recommendation T.6) images saved as TIFF files with a minium scan resolution of 400 dpi." I think the guy at the Boat Anchor Manual Archive is happy to have them in any-old format. (To be honest, I have no idea why bitsavers prefers Group 4 fax compression.) The Tektronix catalogs I've seen (1982: <ftp://bama.sbc.edu/downloads/tek/cat1982/Tektronix_1982.pdf>, 1985: <ftp://bama.sbc.edu/downloads/tek/cat1985/Tektronix_1985.pdf>) were scanned in color, which is very helpful for a few reasons. First, Tektronix had a tendency to mark new items by printing them in the index in color. A B&W scan doesn't reveal this as readily. Second, they had nice color pictures of the graphics terminals which gave you more of a sense for their output. With things like manuals, I wouldn't think color would normally be an issue -- typically there's only the occasional photo. So I would prefer color scans. Bitsavers requests the high resolution (400dpi) for manuals because I think they're expecting that people are scanning at 1bit/pixel which means you have to scan at high resolution for character recognition to work well. For material with color photos and lots of text intermixed (like the Tektronix catalogs), it might be better to scan it both ways: one way for the visual appeal and the other way for the eventual OCR of the data. With a PDF you could even combine the two results to get a "pretty" PDF with color pictures that you could text search. If anyone has Tektronix catalogs they want to part with, email me :-). I was more interested in just getting at the information than having my own catalogs though. With the 82 and 85 catalogs that are online and the manuals at bitsavers, I have gotten most of the material I needed so far. However, now I'm venturing out into territory that isn't so well documented in the regular places, so I'm on the lookout for any documentation related to the Tektronix terminals and/or development systems. HC = Hitachi Copier? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline"-- code samples, sample chapter, FAQ: <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/> Pilgrimage: Utah's annual demoparty <http://pilgrimage.scene.org>