29 Sep
2019
29 Sep
'19
6:53 p.m.
From: Warren Toomey
All, I'm just musing where is the best place to
store Unix
documentation. My Unix Archive is really just a filesystem, so it's not
so good to capture and search metadata.
Is anybody using archive.org, gunkies or something else
BitSavers seems to be the canonical location for old computer documentation.
The CHWiki (gunkies.org) isn't really the best place to put original documentation,
but that's where I'd recommend putting meta-data. As for searching meta-data,
are
you speaking of something more powerful than Google?
Noel
PS: Speaking of old Unix documentation, I recently acquired a paper copy of the
PDP-11 V6 Unix manual. Is that something I should scan? I don't know if you
already have it (I know where to find sources in the archives, but I don't
know where documentation scans live.)
29 Sep
29 Sep
8:11 p.m.
New subject: Poll: good location for Unix documentation?
On Sunday, September 29, 2019, 2:53:52 PM EDT, Noel Chiappa
<jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
PS: Speaking of old Unix documentation, I recently
acquired a paper copy of the
PDP-11 V6 Unix manual. Is that something I should scan? I don't know if you
already have it (I know where to find sources in the archives, but I don't
know where documentation scans live.)
I was looking for a copy of that for my exhibit at VCF southeast
this year, but I never could find a complete copy. There's a
mostly complete scan on archive.org, but there are some bits
missing. I'd have to do a little digging to say just which bits,
though. (The tmg doc was one I remember not being there.)
BLS
8:23 p.m.
New subject: Poll: good location for Unix documentation?
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 2:54 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
I agree +1 BitSavers, but Warren you should keep your stuff. One-stop
shopping for UNIX archives is a good thing.
From: Warren
Toomey
All, I'm just musing where is the best place
to store Unix
documentation. My Unix Archive is really just a filesystem, so it's
not
so good to capture and search metadata.
Is anybody using archive.org, gunkies or something else
BitSavers seems to be the canonical location for old computer
documentation.
The CHWiki (gunkies.org) isn't really the best place to put original
documentation,
but that's where I'd recommend putting meta-data. As for searching
meta-data, are
you speaking of something more powerful than Google?
Noel
PS: Speaking of old Unix documentation, I recently acquired a paper copy
of the
PDP-11 V6 Unix manual. Is that something I should scan? I don't know if you
already have it (I know where to find sources in the archives, but I don't
know where documentation scans live.)
What I personally have is impure, and I have not seen a complete one
elsewhere, so if you have a real manual, that is a good thing IMHO.
9:34 p.m.
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On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 02:53:20PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
BitSavers seems to be the canonical location for old
computer documentation.
Looks like BitSavers is the recommendation. Can someone point me at the
docs that outline the procedure to get documents to Al (others as well?) for
consideration.
I might put things in both bitsavers.org and archive.org.
Cheers, Warren
10:40 p.m.
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2019, Warren Toomey wrote:
I might put things in both bitsavers.org and
archive.org.
A bit of redundancy won't hurt...
-- Dave
11:02 p.m.
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I really would suggest first and foremost just getting stuff scanned. Archive.org does
pull from bitsavers ( according to Jason when I talked to him ) so posting there should
hit both. Redundancy is good. So keeping it on your site as well doesn’t hurt. And having
TUHS as a place to look at to start makes a lot of sense to me.
Earl
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 29, 2019, at 5:35 PM, Warren Toomey
<wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 02:53:20PM -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote:
BitSavers seems to be the canonical location for
old computer documentation.
Looks like BitSavers is the recommendation. Can someone point me at the
docs that outline the procedure to get documents to Al (others as well?) for
consideration.
I might put things in both bitsavers.org and archive.org.
Cheers, Warren 
7 Oct
7 Oct
6:38 p.m.
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On 9/29/19 2:34 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
Can someone point me at the
docs that outline the procedure to get documents to Al
There is no documentation, just an email adr on the bottom of the main page
I can email you ftp upload info
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