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From: Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Fwd: Anyone have Plexus docs/software squirreled away?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:10:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dad1746e-f0f6-aa09-8728-1ca84913f36f@bitsavers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACY3YMG+qMD31Hvo8HYtH3qg27KTfgEwTVUHeACqYMRktjgZtw@mail.gmail.com>

On 6/19/24 4:03 PM, Rik Farrow wrote:

> Someone who had previously worked at Lawrence Livermore Labs offered me the VMS source on microfiche, sometime around 1990. I turned him 
> down...
> 
> Rik
> 

I have thousands of sheets of DEC Microfiche. Base VMS sources up through version 5-ish aren't rare.

Companies have regular purges of engineering documentation for obsolete products.

We were lucky at CHM to have a friend as the archivist at HP in the 00s and we were able to save lots of material
from a few of their computer lines (HP1000, 68K 9000, and some Apollo) and the DEC corporate paper
archive.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-06-19 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <d949c87a-01ae-08d3-eee0-871f5975d935@bitsavers.org>
2024-06-19 16:07 ` [TUHS] " Al Kossow
2024-06-19 16:20   ` [TUHS] " Steve Nickolas
2024-06-19 17:22     ` Al Kossow
2024-06-19 22:13       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2024-06-19 22:25   ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-19 22:46     ` Al Kossow
2024-06-19 22:58       ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-19 23:03         ` Rik Farrow
2024-06-19 23:10           ` Al Kossow [this message]
2024-06-19 23:21         ` [TUHS] " Peter Yardley
2024-06-20  0:20           ` Warner Losh
2024-06-20  1:18             ` Peter Yardley
2024-06-20  2:30             ` Henry Bent
2024-06-20  2:48               ` Warner Losh
2024-06-20  4:12                 ` segaloco via TUHS

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