> From: Al Kossow
> Dover was not an Interpress printer
Yeah, it used Press format. BTW, here:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/unix/s2/press.c
is the program from our V6 Unix machine to produce PRESS format files for the
MIT Dover. (.v was the format for the Varian printer, a poor man's XGP, but
which had finer resolution; our copy of troff had been hacked to produce .v
format output.)
Noel
I'm in the middle of imaging a set of 5 1/4" diskettes from 1988
containing the Interpress conformance test suite.
My plan is to
- convert the MS-DOS backup format images to files (trivial)
- find interpress to postscript converter to print the files.
- compare them to the reference pictures to verify I got them all.
The third part is the hard one. I believe there was a document to go along
with the images, so you could verify they printed as expected. I don't
think I have that any more. I'm looking for pointers to an online copy. My
search has come up empty.
Of course, the alternative is if someone has an interpress printer. We
could just print them. Perhaps Curious Marc has one alongside the Alto?
Hello, DEC enthusiasts -
I've got some 5-1/4" disks here that purport to be from a DECmate
(probably II) and may have data offloaded from a bigger system. But the
disks don't have any recognizable trace of a filesystem on them; just
vast swathes of data that looks like this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12EO4Lg1Uh7NvCUJksHQ2AUiK550OX7UJ/view?usp=…
It seems to be a pattern of a near-zero byte followed by some other
byte. It's like they're storing 12-bit words in 16 bits or something.
Does anyone recognize this sort of thing, just eyeballing it?
- David
> Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 21:27:58 -0400
> From: Chris Zach <cz at alembic.crystel.com>
> To: dstalk at execulink.com, "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
> Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Subject: Re: Pro350/"XT" pre-release documents
> Message-ID: <9f8a2890-d268-bb19-1989-e26364c9c7a8 at alembic.crystel.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
>
> Well, what I have is this:
>
> SPSS/Pro introductory guide
> (2) SPSS/Pro for DEC professional/350
> SPSS-X User's guide, third edition (Think telephone book)
> 4 disks VOL NAME SPSSPRO1 (to 4)
>
>
> Hey, in one of the manuals there is an additional disk SPSS/Pro
> DEMONSTRATION
>
> I guess I can copy them on my Pro/380 to other disks, but does anyone
> have a better way to make a spare copy? They are almost 40 years old at
> this point...
>
> Interesting stuff.
>
> C
Chris,
There was also a SPSS-11 for RSX and your SPSS for Pro/350 would likely be a later version. A few years ago I bought the SPSS-11 manual from an Ebay seller. It looks like SPSS-11 ran a lot like the IBM OS/360 version in that it was feed a file of input and it produced a file of output (like a batch job).
The Pro 350 version was likely a bit more interactive and I would be very interested in getting a copy of it. As far as the best way to get a copy made, it would be great to read them on a M+ system that has TCP/IP or is at least connected to HECnet so the disk images could be uploaded somewhere. Also, the manuals would be of interest as well. The SPSS-11 manual I have is a relatively thin paperback book.
Thanks,
Mark
Also came across a TSX Plus reference guide and install guide, from
1985. These two fill a very large binder, have they already been scanned?
If not I'll burn out my scanner doing these. If so I can pulp or Ebay them.
C
Hi!
Given that other people seem interested in the Pro/350 series systems I
thought I would dig out and scan some of the remaining manuals I have.
These seem to have come from an agreement with SPSS back in 1982 or so
and all appear to be draft documents.
I'll upload them as I scan them (takes time) to https://www.crystel.com/pdp
I'll upload a PDF file along with a zip file of the scans at 300dpi.
Question: Would the SPSS manuals be interesting?
Also I have an RSX11M 3.2 manual set in a big binder, worth scanning or
is that up there already? I'm assuming the Fortran manuals have already
been scanned in the past.
Final thought: Looks like I have the spss/x floppies for the Pro version
1.0, are those out there somewhere already?
Thanks!
Chris
Hopefully this is an easy question - are the sources for the XXDP
diagnostics online anywhere? I particularly looking for NKXA, the
Falcon-11/KXT11/DCT11 one.
Thanks,
Bob
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I was sifting through a huge box of industrial junk in my basement and
found two NIB DEC H8575-A DB25 to MMJ adaptors in their original bags
with a 1991 date code. The DB25 is female and the MMJ is, of course,
a jack.
Does anybody want them for postage from Athabasca, Alberta?
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV : "...underneath those tuques we wear,
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black
