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...