Re: UniPlus+ manuals: a missing piece?

Excellent!

On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:06 PM, -jeffB <jeff.brandenburg_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> Oops, make that "already available at bitsavers":
>
>
> http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/unisoft/UniPlus-Lisa-specific.pdf
>
> 12 topics, 20 pages total. Enjoy!
>
>
> On Monday, November 9, 2015 at 3:59:11 PM UTC-5, -jeffB wrote:
>>
>> Thanks to Ray, a PDF of these pages is on its way to bitsavers. I'll post
>> here again if the printed documentation needs a home.
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 3, 2015 at 4:23:04 PM UTC-5, Ray Arachelian wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.bra..._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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