Re: UniPlus+ manuals: a missing piece?

I can scan them in and send them out to bitsavers, or perhaps Al will directly want them, whatever works?

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 3:20 PM, -jeffB <jeff.brandenburg_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> Hi, everybody --
>
> Way back in 2008, I popped up here to announce that I'd found my full set
> of UniPlus+ installation floppies from the Virginia Tech (VPI)
> distribution. Long story short, with the help of Ray Arachelian and James
> MacPhail, we managed to get that distribution copied and preserved for
> posterity.
>
> I mentioned at that time that I'd also sprung for the full PRINTED set of
> UniPlus+ documentation, but that I couldn't find it. No big deal; the
> manuals are preserved as PDFs at
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/unisoft/uniplus+/ , and
> possibly elsewhere as well. I even see that they have the VPI installation
> instructions there.
>
> Well, during some recent archaeological work in my home office, I
> unearthed a box sealed from our last house-move in 1996 -- in fact, it's
> probably sealed from the previous move in 1993, or perhaps even earlier --
> and, sure enough, it contained the printed manuals. This is cool; the
> collector who bought my Lisa and the floppy set would like to have them,
> and I'd like for all my materials to be reunited.
>
> I did find one small surprise in the box, though. In addition to the bound
> manuals -- user guides, admin guides, Pascal, FORTRAN, and so forth --
> there was a small set of unbound (but three-hole-punched) pages. These
> pages describe facilities unique to the Lisa platform:
>
> CONSOLE(5L)
> console - bitmap display and keyboard
>
> CORVUS(5L)
> c, rc - Corvus hard drive interface
>
> EJECT(1L)
> eject - eject the Sony microdrive
>
> MOUSE(5L)
> mouse - general mouse interface
>
> PRIAM(5L)
> pr, rpm - Priam datatower disk drive
>
> PROFILE(5L)
> p, rp - profile hard disk interface
>
> RTC(5L)
> rtc - real time clock
>
> SETPARAMS(1L)
> setparams - tune changeable parameters for console screen, console
> keyboard, and bell
>
> SETRTC(1L)
> setrtc - read the real time clock, and optionally set it and/or the UNIX
> system time
>
> SIO CARD(5L)
> SIO card - Tecmar Quad serial I/O card
>
> SONY(5L)
> s, rs - Sony disk interface
>
> SPEAKER(5L)
> speaker - interface to the LISA speaker
>
> There's not a lot of volume, maybe 20-30 non-blank pages total. As far as
> I can tell, though, this information is NOT included in the online archives
> of UniPlus+ documentation.
>
> So, my question: how do I reunite this material with the rest of the
> archived documentation? Or is it already there, and I'm just looking in the
> wrong place? Eventually I'm hoping to send everything off to the collector
> I mentioned above, but I'd like to make sure this material isn't lost to
> the net at large.
>
> Thanks for any advice...
>
>
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