From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,XPRIO autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!gandalf.srv.welterde.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED.rrsoftware.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Janus Ada 1.5 Ada cp/m manuals Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:34:14 -0500 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: <878s10jvdc.fsf@nightsong.com> Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2021 02:34:15 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: franka.jacob-sparre.dk; posting-host="rrsoftware.com:24.196.82.226"; logging-data="31170"; mail-complaints-to="news@jacob-sparre.dk" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.7246 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62512 List-Id: "Paul Rubin" wrote in message news:878s10jvdc.fsf@nightsong.com... > "Randy Brukardt" writes: >> I've offered to others to scan it to PDFs (one per page, that's all I can >> figure out how to do on our cheap multifunction machine here) > > Do you think you could scan and post one page, maybe from the middle, so > we would know what we are dealing with? That I can do. See http://www.rrsoftware.com/archives/CPM-doc-sample.zip There are three pages in here, one from the 3.3 upgrade text, and two from the regular 3.2 printed manual. (I don't think there ever was a consolidated version.) Looking at this in more detail, it looks like the original documentation was printed on the NEC Spinwriter with a special font and ribbon. The formatting program was something we built, it was related to the typesetter version but that might have been a bit later. The 3.3 update seems to have been printed on a lousy dot matrix printer, probably whatever we were using at the time. That's why I scanned a sample of each. The 3.3 update seems to be an MS-DOS version, unfortunately (it talks about 8087 at one point); for the most part those were the same but there is probably some CP/M specific stuff that's missing. I haven't been able to get the HP scanning software to work reliably on our network, so I have to scan each page individually and e-mail it to myself. That works fine for things that are just a single page (like invoices) but gets real old for a large document. (There are about eight steps on the tiny touch screen of the printer for each page.) Not sure that it would be much easier even with the software, because I'd still have to go into the other room and change each page to be scanned (no feeder on this scanner). Randy.