UniPlus+ manuals: a missing piece? from -jeffB on 2015-11-03 (lisalist1)

From: -jeffB <jeff.brandenburg_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 12:20:23 -0800 (PST)

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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