[Simh] OSs with accessible documentation

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Sat Feb 6 01:59:44 EST 2016


Note: I have some TOPS-20 oddities so my documentation is slightly unusual...

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> On Feb 5, 2016, at 22:57, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
> 
> A lot of the TOPS-20 manuals are plain text, or at least TeX, so convertible.
> 
> How do you use the simulators?do screen readers handle them well?
> 
> I wonder how hard using expect to hook espeak/festival in to simh 's console system would be...
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Feb 5, 2016, at 14:50, Zachary Kline <zkline at speedpost.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> So the recent RSTS/E discussion has got me wondering what OS’s I might be able to run under SIMH with readable documentation. As a totally blind enthusiast I can’t really use the Bitsavers collection without manually running OCR on the PDFs, a tedious and error-prone process.
>> I’m aware VMS is recent enough to have a lot of its documentation available in an electronic format, but I’m curious if there’s anything else out there.
>> I’ve recently downloaded several .tap files for RSTS and Tops-20, for instance, but have been running into trouble when booting them. 
>> I guess I’m just curious how a lot of these systems were installed.
>> 
>> Has any work been done on retyping some of the documentation?
>> Thanks much,
>> Zack.
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