Re: UniPlus+ manuals: a missing piece?

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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