[Simh] Fanfold Photos.

[Tim Shoppa]

Brett, I remember from DECUS announcements that Martin Minow was author of
the RSTS/E System's Programmer Notebook. Thanks for the pictures!

Tim

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Brett Bump <bbump at rsts.org> wrote:

>
> Paul, (and anyone else that wants to take a look).
>
> http://www.rsts.org/~bbump/unknown_author
>
> It's not like it is that long, I will probably end up typing it in.
>
> Brett
>
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2017, Paul Koning wrote:
>
>
>> On Oct 6, 2017, at 3:29 PM, Brett Bump <bbump at rsts.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> This is mostly for Tim and Paul, but I figured to cross-post in case any
>>> one might have seen this before (before I lob thy Holy Hand Grenade).
>>>
>>> 1.  In cleaning up some of my old paperwork, I stumbled across a fanfold
>>> .   paper copy of "RSTS/E System Programmer's Notebook" page 3 (no 1-2)
>>> .   followed by Chapters 1-5 and Appendix A, B pages 1-5.  The bottom of
>>> .   the Preface reads:
>>> .
>>> .   "What follows is a sermon, it is not a Gospel."
>>> .
>>> .   A section on the first page of Appendix A has a paragraph that says:
>>> .
>>> .   CAUTION
>>> .   The PPEK sequences described in this     (sic. I presume PEEK)
>>> .   document are not a part of the supported
>>> .   functionality of RSTS/E V6C as described
>>> .   in the RSTS/E Software Product Description.
>>> .
>>> Has anyone seen/read this before, know who wrote it, have a digital copy
>>> that could be distributed out, or am I destined to type it back in so all
>>> can read (it is good material on old yellowed crackly fanfold paper)???
>>>
>>
>> That doesn't ring bells, and I don't seem to have that document in my
>> files.  I was part of RSTS/E development at that time, so if it came from
>> there I might have seen it but let it slip my memory.
>>
>> Could you scan a few pages, perhaps the first few and a couple of pages
>> of that appendix, so I can see more of the context?  Just a simple
>> photograph is probably good enough if you don't have a scanner.
>>
>> Typing it all in is hard work (I've done it for un-OCR-able listings, 300
>> pages).  If the listing is clean, a scan plus OCR will cut the effort very
>> considerably.  Or just a scan, since scans are perfectly readable for
>> humans.  OCR is only necessary if it's code that you want to be able to
>> compile/assemble or other kinds of data that need to be processed by some
>> program.  Not too long ago I sent an old listing of "BTSS" (RSTS v0) to
>> another person on this list, who scanned it very skillfully.  In other
>> words, those capabilities are around.
>>
>> 2.  I lost a very good friend (coworker) this week to MI (he was 66).
>>>  ...
>>>
>>
>> I'm sorry to hear that.  I don't have answers on your other two questions.
>>
>>         paul
>>
>>
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