I know there are few people interested in computing history on this list.
Would anyone be interested in any of the following historical manuals:
Control Data 6400/6500/6600 Computer Systems Reference Manual, 1969
This was the world's first commercial supercomputer and first
RISC architecture based machine; designed by Seymour Cray.
PDP 11 bus and processor handbooks, ~1973
VAX 11/780 hardware, software, and architecture handbooks, ~1977
Bell System Technical Journal, 1978, Vol 57, No 6, Part 2
This is a special edition devoted to the Unix Time-Sharing System
authored by all of the key players; it might be the first major
publication exploring Unix in detail, I am not sure.
Bell Laboratories Technical Journal, 1984, 63, 8, 2
Another full issue devoted to Unix by key players.
The Oak Language and Oak Virtual Machine Specification Release 0.9, 1994
Oak was subsequently renamed Java.
I checked with the Computer History musuem (a great place if you have
never been), and they didn't want them, but I am having a hard time
just throwing them away.
Let me know if you are interested. Just give me your address, and I
will mail them to you.
thanks,
gordon
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