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Scanning CHM documents #6

Closed aap closed 7 years ago

aap commented 7 years ago

The CHM (http://www.computerhistory.org/) has a collection of PDP-6 and -10 related documents. I'm in contact now with Sydney Gulbronson who is responsible for scanning these things and she told me that they charge $1 per page, which can amount to quite a lot of money.

The PDP-6 related documents are these: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102683300 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102683302 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10267943 (duplicate it seems) http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102750037 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102750036 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102679428 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102679431 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102683333

Source code of Spacewar!: http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102680667

Since it's not clear what some of the documents even are or how many pages they have I will ask about a few of them just see what price range we're looking at here.

The reason I'm posting this is of course to ask for money. I'm not exactly keen on spending hundreds of dollars on some scans that happen to not be on bitsavers. So if you're willing to spend some money on this or have a better idea how to have these digitized, please tell.

larsbrinkhoff commented 7 years ago

I would suggest talking to Al Kossow. He's not only the master bitsaver, he's also a curator at CHM.

aap commented 7 years ago

I mailed him a while ago but he didn't reply to most of my email. He even ignored the scanned MACRO-6 manual I sent him :/

larsbrinkhoff commented 7 years ago

If messages are dropped, you may have to reroute them. If e.g. Greenblatt asked for PDP-6 pdfs, maybe it'll get done quicker.

larsbrinkhoff commented 7 years ago

Related to this, there are many interesting articles at the ACM:
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:acm.org+%22pdp-6%22
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:acm.org+%22pdp10%22
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:acm.org+%22pdp-10%22
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:acm.org+%22decsystem%22
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:acm.org+%22tenex%22
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:acm.org+%22macsyma%22
etc...

They are also behind a paywall. Do ACM members get a discount?

aap commented 7 years ago

I could try from the uni network. I think I got some ACM articles before...some may be duplicates of AI memos or similar btw.

aap commented 7 years ago

PING @kossow. Please consider scanning more PDP-6 documents. And also please put the MACRO-6 manual on bitsavers: http://pdp-6.net/docs/DEC-6-0-TP-MAC-LM-FP-ACT01_MACRO-6_Assembly_Language_Feb65.pdf

aap commented 7 years ago

I just noticed a bunch of new pdfs are now on bitsavers. This is awesome, thanks a lot!!

larsbrinkhoff commented 7 years ago

Case closed?

aap commented 7 years ago

For now :)