12 Sep
2000
12 Sep
'00
1:47 a.m.
jorgen.pehrson(a)compaq.com wrote:
Plenty of the hardware documents are available
(internally at Compaq) as
scanned PDF files. And those documents will at least not end up in
/dev/null.
Having current and semi-current manuals kicking around
isn't really the issue though. I've seen more PDP-8,
PDP-10 and PDP-11 era manuals outside of COMPAQ/Digital/DEC
than I ever saw inside.
For VAX, PC and Alpha material the situation was
much better inside.
I wonder how many VAX hardware manuals will still be available
internally to COMPAQ in maybe ten (or five) years time?
Antonio
12 Sep
12 Sep
2:11 a.m.
Well I know that the only KA6xx CPU technical manual you can order from DEC
literature is the KA640 manual. (Why this one? I don't know, even the KA670
manual is out of print!)
--Chuck
At 07:47 AM 9/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
jorgen.pehrson(a)compaq.com wrote:
Plenty of the hardware documents are available
(internally at Compaq) as
scanned PDF files. And those documents will at least not end up in
/dev/null.
Having current and semi-current manuals kicking around
isn't really the issue though. I've seen more PDP-8,
PDP-10 and PDP-11 era manuals outside of COMPAQ/Digital/DEC
than I ever saw inside.
For VAX, PC and Alpha material the situation was
much better inside.
I wonder how many VAX hardware manuals will still be available
internally to COMPAQ in maybe ten (or five) years time?
Antonio
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