Re: UniPlus+ manuals: a missing piece?

Hi Jeff,

Did you send the docs to anyone else to be scanned in? If not you could send them to me, but it has to be within the next 2 weeks as I'm moving sometime at the end of this month.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:23 PM, Ray Arachelian <ray.arachelian_at_email.domain.hidden> 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.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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