Thanks Mike. That's a great page by page copy. I think this should be the one 
that gets uploaded everywhere. It's much easier to read than the scans I did.

Kurt

On Tue, Oct 20, 2026, at 12:47 AM, Mike Hyde wrote:
> I tried cleaning it up a bit.
> 
> nec8201_techref.pdf 
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lrG5xFYHzFkpzP9aIkPClPZplgM7CVsL/view?usp=sharing>
> drive.google.com 
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lrG5xFYHzFkpzP9aIkPClPZplgM7CVsL/view?usp=sharing>
> drive_favicon_2026_32dp.png 
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lrG5xFYHzFkpzP9aIkPClPZplgM7CVsL/view?usp=sharing>
 
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lrG5xFYHzFkpzP9aIkPClPZplgM7CVsL/view?usp=sharing>
> 
> 
> 
>> On Oct 19, 2026, at 10:39 PM, Gary Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Kurt's scan is in three parts:
>> 
>> https://www.web8201.net/Files/LIBRARY_web8201/nec8201_techref_pt1.pdf,
>> https://www.web8201.net/Files/LIBRARY_web8201/nec8201_techref_pt2.pdf,
>> https://www.web8201.net/Files/LIBRARY_web8201/nec8201_techref_pt3.pdf
>> 
>> And yes these are getting uploaded to archive.org, along with all of the 
>> other PDFs I have fro the various other manuals.
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2026 at 7:44 PM B9 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> __
>>> I suggest uploading to archive.org as a start.
>>> 
>>> --b9
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On October 19, 2026 6:54:45 PM PDT, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> I've just finished scanning the manual but it's just over 36 megs in size. 
>>>> I need to figure out where to upload it, but when I do I will send the 
>>>> links.
>>>> 
>>>> Kurt
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2026, at 9:41 PM, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
>>>>> I think it was Kurt McCullum that had a clean copy...
>>>>> 
>>>>> I need the following pages from the NEC tech ref:
>>>>> 
>>>>>  Pg 77, 78, 79, 97, 99, 105, 177, 119, 191, 198, 210, 211, 228
>>>>> 
>>>>> What I am working on is a very accurate OCR with good formatting of the 
>>>>> ASCII art and accurate content for all assembly listings, etc. I'm using 
>>>>> gemma4:31b on a local rig to do the conversions to ASCII and ultimately 
>>>>> .md. My current purpose is informing the AI as to low level access to 
>>>>> file system etc for it to generate VirtualT socket tests for Gary's port 
>>>>> of SuperROM.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The AI is doing  a much better ocr of the content than the PDF has. It is 
>>>>> doing an excellent job. Even at ASCII art. Sometimes hallucinating 
>>>>> portions of diagrams that aren't there, which is bizarre. And it keeps 
>>>>> stopping and needing to be kicked to continue working. Even so it will 
>>>>> save me a lot of time and we will all have a more tractable version of 
>>>>> the content, ultimately.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> -- John.

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