Pro350/"XT" pre-release documents

Chris Zach cz at alembic.crystel.com
Mon Mar 29 16:12:31 CDT 2021


Yep. They did a whole manual and everything. I think I installed it on 
my 350 back in the early 90's for some school work.

Fun stuff


On 3/29/2021 5:07 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
> SPSS, as in the statistics package?  Interesting.  I didn't know there was a PDP-11 port of that (I only ever used it, on rare occasions, on OS/360).  In fact, COSAP was developed for RSTS mainly to deliver an interactive stats package with capabilities vaguely like SPSS but a much friendlier user interface.
> 
> 	paul
> 
>> On Mar 29, 2021, at 5:03 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> Given that other people seem interested in the Pro/350 series systems I thought I would dig out and scan some of the remaining manuals I have. These seem to have come from an agreement with SPSS back in 1982 or so and all appear to be draft documents.
>>
>> I'll upload them as I scan them (takes time) to https://www.crystel.com/pdp
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>> I'll upload a PDF file along with a zip file of the scans at 300dpi.
>>
>> Question: Would the SPSS manuals be interesting?
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>> Also I have an RSX11M 3.2 manual set in a big binder, worth scanning or is that up there already? I'm assuming the Fortran manuals have already been scanned in the past.
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>> Final thought: Looks like I have the spss/x floppies for the Pro version 1.0, are those out there somewhere already?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Chris
> 


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