On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Tony Duell wrote: After having had 25% success rate in trying to get 4 different Model 33 and 32 units working correctly over the past couple days, I'd say that entitles you to Knighthood, Sir Duell. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]

While I only scored about 22% on the Geek Test, it didn't have any questions pertaining to writing and editing about 300 pages of documentation for a twenty year old computer system that wasn't well known, and doing so about twenty years after it was manufactured. While printing out some files of less "geekish" writings, I discovered some, rather lengthy, documentation that I was working on about a decade ago, and never got around to comleting. So... what did I do? Well, originally, I wrote the documentation for the MINT document processing software, which is somewhat like Scribe, which ran on PERQ workstations (the documentation is about PERQs). Today, I converted the MINT source file to a LaTeX file. It only contains about 50 chapters and is only about 300 pages in length, not counting the index which I haven't added to it yet. It's sort of a compendum of all sorts of interesting bits of information (technical as well as historical) about PERQs, gleaned from conversations with others, note from OS source code, varions documents from PERQ systems, etc., etc., etc. Not complete yet... maybe it will be in another decade at the rate I'm going, but I felt that I should at least get it into a printable format and prepare to pass it along to other PERQ fanatics in case I croak, so that it won't vanish into the land of /dev/null... and so that others can contribute to it, and help preserve it, to make it the ultimate unofficial PERQ reference book once it's completed. -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

Quothe Tony Duell, from writings of Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:04:19AM +0000: That, is an excellent document; proper computer documentation! Do you think the author would object to it being included within other documentation, with credit given to the author, or to a pseudoname for him, should he wish to use one? Somewhere I have a copy of these as well from that author - not sure where, however. Of course, I do know where the printed copy of it is. -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

Quothe Tony Duell, from writings of Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 11:17:46PM +0000: It's great to hear you make this announcement publicly! It's about time that did this! ;-) This document that you've written shows that you have to be the number one PERQ Fanatic, and PERQ hardware hacking expert. Well done! Thanks! It will be included. Your name goes on the front cover of the document that I mentioned earlier. :-) -- Copyright (C) 2003 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)rddavis.org 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.rddavis.org beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

Tony Duell wrote: What about putting it on Al's site ?

Well, I still try to get the idea what's so special about a 500+ part jigsaw. It nedsa at least two more entries as in 'done a 1500+' and 'done a 1500+ puzzle ot the moon or a similar low detail object'. At least over here, 500+ jigsaws are still quite common, that's a freebee for most Germans. Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 5.0 am 01./02. Mai 2004 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/

Gerold Pauler wrote: Now also available as .pdf file (about 2.4 megs, thanks to David Gesswein) and .tif modified to bitmap to reduce size to 2.7 megs. CUOI Gerold

Well, my personal highlighs have been two: a 1500 pice of a pile of gold coins ... all Yellow and round:) and a 2500 of 'halfeathn' over the moon ... where the background is a 100% black... Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 5.0 am 01./02. Mai 2004 in Muenchen http://www.vcfe.org/