Available: Various source/documentation microfische

[Jay West]

If anyone is interested, please politely contact original poster, not me.

Jay West
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Howes" <jim.howes at prosig.com>
To: <jwest at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 6:10 AM
Subject: Various source/documentation microfische


> I've built up a list of assorted stuff that you may be interested in.
> 
> I don't have a microfische reader, and get odd looks at my local library 
> when I nip in there to use theirs (and they are going over to 
> computerised indexes, so the fische readers are going soon (note to 
> self: beg/borrow/rehome/steal one!).
> 
> I made a list a few years ago.  I've stuffed it one the web. URL below.
> 
> The lines in this text file are mainly in this format:
> 
> Group name (various different manuals for a particular device share the 
> same title)
> 
> Manual/source description, possibly with serial numbers or other 
> references, most of which I'm not sure of the meaning of.
> 
> Date  (somewhere between OCT76 and OCT81)
> 
> Number of fisches in this set
> 
> DEC Part number
> 
> ---
> For instance:
> PDP11       MOS/CORE G124K EXER             CZKMAF0  SEP79 1 AH-8851F-MC
> 
> or
> 
> VAX/VMS 4.4     VAX/VMS V2.4 SOURCE LISTINGS MCRF        ????? 536 
> AH-HP48A-SE
> 
> (hmm.  seems I made a typo on that one).  I remember VMS 4.4, just 
> typing &<RETURN> at the command line would log you out with reserved 
> operand error and a stack dump.  I think the VMS4.4 sources may be 
> elsewhere at the moment, it's such a long time since I looked at them.
> 
> Anyway, the file is archived here:
> 
> http://www.notout.demon.co.uk/fische.txt
> 
> 
> I think, on the whole, I'd rather keep hold of these, but will happily 
> lend them to people who make reasonable requests (and supply stamped 
> addressed envelopes for instance).  However, if a good cause would like 
> to take them and catalogue them properly and use them for the benefit of 
> DEC history as a whole, then I'll certainly consider it.
> 
> I'm not sure of the copyright issues regarding the VMS Source listings. 
>  I did try asking a while ago, but got no reply.
> 
> I'm based in Portsmouth, UK.
> 
> Regards,
> Jim
> 
>