The Intel #iAPX 432 architecture was the #Itanium of the last century. Beautiful in concept but #compilers hadn’t caught up to it yet.

Anyway I had never actually read a whole lot of documentation on it, but #Bitsavers as always has come to the rescue:

http://www.bitsavers.org/components/intel/iAPX_432/

#Bitsavers.org
#Databooks

Kennt Ihr den Service, das große FTP Repository von Datenbüchern von https://bitsavers.org?

Habt Ihr Erfahrungen *) mit dem Hochladen hochaufgelöster Datenbücher gemacht?

*) meine kommuniziere ich gerne per DM.

I've spent weeks researching primary sources of technical documentation for the Lisa source drop coming Jan 19th.
New uploads at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/lisa
#bitsavers

@gechytil

that would be interesting to scan
this was back when it was still running Unisoft Unix and a 68000 processor
I have the system manual here:
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/sun/sun1

I also have the system on cartridge tape, but a couple of blocks were bad and i've never been able to find another copy
http://bitsavers.org/bits/Sun/UniSoft_1.3

#bitsavers #siliconvalley

Someone asked for the 1969 Fairchild Semiconductor Data Catalog, so here it is
#bitsavers
It took all day to clean up and index the pages
http://bitsavers.org/components/fairchild/_dataBook/1969_Fairchild_Semiconductor_Data_Catalog

From the Cabinet of Curiosities
#bitsavers
Potter RAM(tm) Tape Random Access Memory ca. 1966
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/potter/brochures/1-103_TLM-3550_RAM_Dual_Cartridge_Random_Access_memory_196604.pdf

#bitsavers #AppleLore
Spent the day doing research to see how much the HP 300 "Amigo" influenced the design of the Apple Lisa. @Cdespinosa probably knows. I do know that Paul Baker once told me he worked on Amigo before coming to Apple. http://bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/300

yay! I now have two running Lisas
#bitsavers
Been working on fixing 400K floppies. It turns out 3in1 Lock Dry Lube is amazing at freeing up frozen floppy inject mechanisms.

#bitsavers
found this on a thread I was following on here

"But maybe engineering archaeology will always exist. The more I look around, the more the engineering world, once you go back more than a few years, looks like subterranean New York City. A mass of strange engineering feats humming away out of sight, produced by long-forgotten ancient peoples, leaving only fragmentary maps and diagrams."

The original only exists now on IA
https://web.archive.org/web/20120111055334/http://wrttn.in/04af1a

#bitsavers
finishing up a multi-day project uploading and reorganizing manuals on GE and Honeywell computers from the 60s and 70s
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ge
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell

@JustCodeCulture
#bitsavers
manuals on the file computer
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/univac/fileComputer/

including a manual for the flight plan computer developed for the FAA

#bitsavers
weekend rathole
Someone emailed me about a language developed at GE called TASMIN that I had never heard of so I'm in the process of pushing out a bunch of historical docs for GE computers and OCRing some that were already there. Unfortunately, the discussion is going on at Facebook, so I have no idea what the context is since they don't allow non-members to peek over their garden wall.
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ge/history

@JustCodeCulture
#bitsavers
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/series_L/

@JustCodeCulture
#bitsavers
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/honeywell/h800

#bitsavers

just received semiconductor product catalog binders ca. 1960 for Pacific Semiconductor, Hughes, and Transitron.
also, stumbled upon http://semiconductormuseum.com/Museum_Index.htm

#bitsavers

@pcjones@mas.to

a good friend to bit savers everywhere

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/

#bitsavers
assets acquired, so I'm disconnecting from the byrdsight
last tweet, like I said on my last KFJC playlist
good bye, and thanks for all the fish
https://kfjc.org/listen/playlist?i=51042

Someone noticed a copy of the Burroughs 1700 RPG reference manual on eBay. Just uploaded my copy and a few other manuals to #bitsavers
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/B1700

#bitsavers

by request: you can now https://bitsavers.org

#bitsavers

I had a project over the past couple of months to digitize 3.5" floppies with an #Applesauce and would recommend picking up a bottle of cyclomethicone to keep you from carving concentric rings in your media.
https://www.chemistrystore.com/Chemicals_A-F-Cyclomethicone.html