Wanted: DEC Computer Lab manuals - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Jan 2009

Ed, Ethan,

I have a copy of the DEC Computer Lab Teacher's Guide, 1st edition,  
1968.

I'll be away this weekend, but can try to get it scanned next week
(and posted to bitsavers if not already there. It does have a spine...)

- Robert

On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:34 AM, cctech-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
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 Hi, All,

 I was one of the ones lucky enough to get one of the DEC Computer Labs
 on ePay last month.  Mine finally showed up, and after a quick
 inspection, I'm ready to make some cables and hook up some circuits.

 Somewhere, I do have the teacher's manual.  It was given to me nearly
 30 years ago, a thoughtful gift from my step-dad's mother who was the
 local high school chem teacher.  I haven't seen my copy in years, and
 I'm worried it was one of the things I lost in a basement flood in the
 1980s.  I did a google search and a look through bitsavers and didn't
 see anything to download, but I did see that this topic has come up on
 the list before.  There was a call for scanning the docs some time
 back (6 years ago?) but no posting of where said scans might be.
 Also, there are Phillip's pictures of the cables on grid paper, so
 they look like pretty ordinary crimp pins, but I'm having to guess at
 the nominal diameter... 3mm?  From the cover of the student manual, it
 looks like there are 25-ish of the shortest (brown) jumpers, and fewer
 of each longer length, but if anyone has a documented count of the
 number of each length of jumper wire, that'd be really nice to know.

 So are there scans of the student and teacher's manuals for the
 Computer Lab anywhere, and does anyone have a list (including in one
 of the manuals) of the normal inventory of jumper leads?

 Oh... one more thing... does anyone have any idea which bi-pin bulbs
 DEC used on this?  I didn 't tear mine apart far enough tonight to get
 bulb details.

 Thanks,

 -ethan

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 I'm also interested in a scanned or Xerox copied version, as I also
 bought one of those Computer Lab's. It still has to arrive, overseas
 shipping takes sometimes longer than one hopes.