Re: UniPlus+ manuals: a missing piece?

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
> <javascript:>> 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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