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but it s impossible to tell whether i should search it for partition or for slice or disk label volume header file domain or something else entirely or if i have found the page or pages containing the information i want i need to page back and forth between several sections which is a pain in the ass on an ascii terminal or even at the best of times in a couple of xterms with a pager that doesn t support backward motion so for myself and anyone else who has found themselves in similar straits unsure of what extra information might be lurking somewhere i don t know to look trying to read the manual 24 lines at a time this project is dedicated to you where possible the troff page sources have been used including support for the tbl and eqn preprocessors for the highest possible quality output if you re used to reading man pages on a terminal you might be surprised by what you ve been missing where systems have only shipped with catman processed manuals the line printer has been emulated including support for bold underline overstrikes and forward and back half linefeeds some systems have shipped with manuals further processed by col which removes some of these features to improve output on terminals and mangles e g eqn output for these systems the results are no worse than on the terminal though unfortunately in some cases the character cell resolution of the line printer is insufficient to render e g table columns without resulting in type clashes a few manuals were distributed in html format these have been processed more or less as is i am continuing to add manuals and improve the quality of the indexer and various typesetters updates will be published as these things happen probably without further fanfare a few manuals include diagrams meant to be reproduced with pic eventually i intend to add support for that oh and there s also been a bunch of silly benchmarking going on in the articles section r stricklin curator 11 june 2017 new content several apple related product brochures mactcp a ux 2 0 x windows for a ux macintosh ii macintosh iix laserwriter iint power macintosh 8500 150 8500 180 franklin ace 1000 r stricklin curator 28 may 2017 new content a glossy ti explorer brochure from september 1984 in other news yes i am still alive r stricklin curator 10 june 2014 new content a glossy next hardware brochure from 1990 corresponding to the release of the nextdimension and the first batch of 68040 machines by 1990 the motorola 68000 family was beginning to look a bit feeble judged by the standards of where the rest of the workstation market was already heading in the graphics department however the performance of nextdimension told a very different story today we take full color opaque window drags for granted in 1990 this was bordering on witchcraft r stricklin curator 27 october 2013 new content data general nova logic diagrams these are tabloid sized vellum ozalid process originals with some hand annotations they describe the original nova machine which predates the 800 1200 and supernova the print set may or may not be complete but in its current state contains diagrams for the cpu core memory console psu timing and others you can find it in the retrotechnology articles section of the site r stricklin curator 2 june 2013 new content a couple of items from an april 1985 press kit from the droid works glossy editdroid and sounddroid brochures and an editdroid faq the editdroid was not a commercial success wikipedia claims only 24 were sold but it sure is a nice piece of furniture r stricklin curator 10 october 2012 new content sgi iris 3100 series workstations product guide and media logic artisan color paint application brochure shiny workstation cheesecake pinups whizzy screenshots 3d mex geometry engines r stricklin curator 15 august 2012 new content sgi vms xns series 2000 3000 software guide for release n2 3 hard to believe there was a time when an sgi needed to be fed data from a vax or a time that includes ethernet but not ubiquitous tcp ip r stricklin curator 13 august 2012 new content apollo computer inc second quarter report 1985 apollo were still a year away from introducing their most successful series of machines with the dn3000 and somehow amongst all the congratulatory language and hedged bets i get the sense that apollo were finding business more difficult than they had imagined r stricklin curator 24 april 2012 new content ibm 5250 information display system introduction this is the father of all of ibm s twinaxial terminals introduced with the system 34 and still in use today with iseries r stricklin curator 22 april 2012 new content ibm system 36 facts folder have an inexplicable itch to review the features and characteristics of the system 36 platform don t ignore it satisfy it r stricklin curator 21 april 2012 new content the remaining three system 36 brochures to match the business graphics one i published in february these three are generally less gratuitously silly flexible communications integrated office applications and a fold out poster with pictures and feature summaries of the assorted hardware in the system 36 ecosystem viva la 80s r stricklin curator 12 february 2012 new content ibm system 36 business graphics fact folder in the articles section they seem proud but all i can see are the limitations graph up to 8 lines plotting up to 24 values each the artifice by which they bulked this up to an entire eight page glossy is pretty hilarious r stricklin curator 1 january 2012 new content sgi indigo 2 product guide in the articles section a flashy brochure for a flashy machine happy new year everyone r stricklin curator 29 december 2011 new content ibm pc at 370 facts folder in the articles section it s nice to finally have some solid information about this obscure system it s a marketing glossy but still better than apocryphal ramblings other sections of the site such as the media vault project notes and hardware and software inventories are filling out slowly without much fanfare but they are nonetheless being continually updated r stricklin curator 25 may 2011 css updates primarily dealing with formatting of console output and dealing with tables in a slightly more sophisticated way fun stuff check it out r stricklin curator 30 june 2010 i ve been waiting for this day for a very long time r stricklin curator 28 april 2010 redid the retrotechnology articles section again still trying to work out how best to solve the latent organizational issues in retrospect adding intermediate card catalog pages between the index and the actual pdfs was probably not a great help getting rid of them and expanding some of that data into the index itself feels like a reasonable compromise i m satisfied for now feedback is as always welcome perhaps the thumbnails can be improved slightly later new content at long last there is content in the restoration projects section i have converted some of the problem logs i maintain for each system to html and made them available here there are setup and installation notes in addition to the normal problem solving breadcrumb trails it s possible i m not the only person who will ever run into these problems with luck an item or two might be just the thing that s needed to save somebody else from tearing their hair out as i did mine r stricklin curator 25 april 2010 new content convergent technologies release notice for 3 1 video access method saa 3401 includes a brief overview of the various display options for ctos systems ca 1989 r stricklin curator 28 february 2010 so i failed to spend time working on other projects new content convergent s 8086 ctos assembly language manual with a copyright date of 1980 i suspect this is probably from the very first generation of ctos perhaps even slightly before which i suppose makes it at least slightly remarkable probably nobody s writing new assembler programs on ctos these days but hey maybe somebody will start r stricklin curator 26 february 2010 new content convergent s ctos debugger manual got bugs i should probably spend some time now working on other projects for a while r stricklin curator 25 february 2010 new content sr9 2 getting started with your domain ix system if you ve never tried to use an apollo domain workstation before you could probably be forgiven for assuming that because it has unix and a gui that it should be relatively simple to log in and find yourself immediately comfortable enough to do some work perhaps you are expecting a brief skirmish with the dustier corners of the ui before that happens you could easily be forgiven for this but you would be wrong go to the articles section and read this book first you can thank me later r stricklin curator 24 february 2010 new content the 1 1d6 release of the bebook this api reference represents the state of progress in the beos at the time the very first public non be developers were seeded in the last days of 1995 even in its final r5 form the beos always felt hopelessly incomplete to me there s even less to be found in 1 1d6 the hardware kit sports a single api for addressing serial ports the network kit is a single page darkly hinting that there might or might not be something vaguely resembling a berkeley sockets api there is no way to access the secondary midi ports and the window system is incapable of running in resolutions other than 640x480 or 800x600 if nothing else it serves as an object lesson in just how much work there is to be done in developing a fully modern os from scratch to have undertaken it simultaneously with an effort to develop a fully modern hardware platform from scratch was a simply augean task don t get me wrong they had realized a lot by 1995 even still it s a long long way off from a completed system frankly it s a miracle they accomplished as much as they did r stricklin curator 12 february 2010 new content sr9 0 domain ix user s guide this document gives you a sense of how apollo approached reconciling unix with aegis and the almost immediate feeling of how badly schizophrenic the resulting system was in many ways it was a heroic but ultimately doomed effort contrasting it with apple s experiences imo successfully reconciling unix with classic macos in os x is especially revealing at the very least it s worth looking at the appendices which reprint a good many classic unix research papers from the heyday of the berkeley csrg r stricklin curator 2 november 2009 i finally figured out how to make indesign set inline text with a box around it the sgi iris documents make frequent use of this convention to indicate keystrokes and back panel connections i have corrected the affected pdfs in the articles section new content convergent technologies release notices for 12 2 dv build tools saa 1300 11 4 linker saa 3101 and 11 3 math server saa 3100 r stricklin curator 23 august 2009 redid the media vault section with thumbnails and improved css added a couple of new screen captures while i was at it r stricklin curator 4 january 2009 new content convergent technologies release notices for 11 3 11 4 standard software saa 3100 and 11 5 standard software update saa 3101 if you are working on restoring an ngen ctos or btos system these release notices have good information on required versions performing the install and how the distribution media is laid out r stricklin curator 30 december 2008 new content i have just uploaded the first pdf from my library of convergent technologies ngen system documentation the ctos vm concepts manual it describes all the system services present in ctos from a programmer s perspective and is fairly comprehensive i hadn t realized how advanced ctos was by 1987 there are a lot of features in it which at the time were primarily only present in midrange or mainframe systems in terms of sophistication i think it was well advanced compared to contemporary unix releases though perhaps somewhat less flexible as an operating system for a series of machines built around the intel x86 processor it really demonstrates just how abysmally pathetic ms dos was os 2 1 0 hadn t been released yet but would represent only the tiniest of baby steps toward what was already in ctos vm r stricklin curator 5 june 2008 new content three new sgi publications are available in the retrotechnology articles section of the site using the light pen using the laser printer and using the color printer these documents are contemporary with the iris 2000 and iris 3000 series machines r stricklin curator 31 may 2008 cleaned up the typesetting in the sgi pdf collection quite a lot this should facilitate more accurate text indexing for google et al the documents have been re edited to clean up some mistakes and the fonts now much more closely match those in the originals new content sgi iris series 3000 owner s guide version 2 0 this complements the version 1 1 document already published here it adds information on the iris series 3100 systems gl2 w3 5 and has an intact chapter 7 optional peripherals which is missing from my copy of version 1 1 two early editions of silicon graphics pipeline fall 1985 and spring 1986 have been added to the site as well css update when i coded the css for this site no currently available browsers supported the nth child rules safari 3 1 1 finally adds support for them therefore tables on the site now render as intended it s possible that other browsers also have recently added or may soon add support i may be inspired to tweak the css a bit r stricklin curator 28 july 2007 new content compaq deskpro 386 personal computer maintenance and service guide you know where to find it enjoy r stricklin curator 28 march 2007 i m coming up for air after having been working on the restoration of a couple of ibm r 390 systems i had an existential moment during the process and did a quick screen grab representing a single instant in a week long heads down hardcore hack session i can t say it s exactly an everyhacker sort of artifact as there aren t many folks who look at 3270 sessions on a regular basis anymore but it s still somehow connected on a fundamental level to a sort of hacker s collective subconscious if such a thing could be said to exist also i get asked a lot by friends and family so what is it you do at work well this is it r stricklin curator 10 march 2007 the retrotechnology articles section is getting big enough that it s starting to face some organizational shortcomings which will only get worse as things grow i m starting to distill some ideas on how to tackle the problem as a first step i ve started reorganizing the documents into a card catalog type structure where the links in the index lead to an intermediate page with document metadata and a link to download the pdf hopefully this will assist people browsing the listings casually it s clear more work needs to be done on this subject before much longer but it s not yet immediately apparent what form the necessary work will 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