[GreenKeys] Teletype M33 and 32 Training Manual

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

Yep, the standards of the archive are impressive. And I'm quite amazed
at how much the archive contains. Though, like any archive, it always
needs more contents.

Though, I would think that if possible a 400 dpi TIFF would be the
absolute minimum as a starting point. Personally when I scan documents
I scan them at a minimum of 600 or higher dpi. (Anything smaller
wouldn't be using my 1TB hard disks as much, haha.) And I personally
hate JPEG as much as anybody else (I prefer PNG, which is lossless,
but I use JPEG only because converting the ouput from my camera to PNG
is doing nothing but wasting space and time).

I would offer the scanning services I get for free from my university.
Only problem is, is that the original binding of any book is destroyed
in the scanning process. (They unbind the book, then shoot the pages
through an exceedingly expensive duplex scanner. Then they rebind
using wire binding.) Also, they complain -- a lot -- about scanning
anything that has nothing to do with the coursework.

Also, although the archive is mainly concerned with computer
technology, teleprinters were used as computer interfaces, so I'm sure
that they won't mind the addition of documentation that concerns
itself with teleprinters. So if you've got some... why not help out a
worthy cause and contribute your documentation on teleprinters so that
the BitSavers archive won't have it's current deficit of information
of teleprinters.

Also, there are sales brochures, it just depends on which company's
set of documentation you're looking through. You can find several
brochures in the DEC part of the archive. Though since it is run by a
curator of the CHM, why he doesn't ask if he could merge their online
document archive with BitSavers is beyond me though (the CHM archive
has a veritable ton of product brochures).

Cheers everyone.


On 3 February 2011 08:04, Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com> wrote:
> Bitsavers is run by Al Kassow who, I believe, is one of the curators at
> the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.
>
> He has fairly high standards for documents coming in because he is trying
> to run the site as a "museum quality" archive.
>
> I follow the discussions on the Classic Computing mailing list
>
>        http://www.classiccmp.org/
>
> and often people will send the original documents to Al who scans
> them pretty much professionally and then returns them to their owners.
> This does have a fairly long time constant though as Al is pretty busy
> with lots of stuff.
>
> But, for those of us collecting and restoring vintage computing equipment,
> Bitsavers is the definitive reference whenever possible.
>
> Chris N0JCF
>
> On Thursday (02/03/2011 at 10:56AM +0000), Sam Hallas wrote:
>> Christian Gauger-Cosgrove wrote:
>> >  As a question, would it be allowed to post the manual up on
>> >  BitSavers? If it is allowed, of course; as I should think it would be
>> >  a great boon to many persons if the manual were posted onto a well
>> >  known repository of data on "obsolete" electronics.
>>
>> Christian,
>>
>> It's the first I've heard of Bitsavers. (so much for well-known!) Do you
>> know how you are supposed to post material? The front page at
>> http://www.bitsavers.org/
>> tells the required format but not where to send files. I see they also
>> want 400 dpi TIFF files in uncompressed format. That might mean a total
>> rescan.
>>
>> There's already some Teletype information there
>> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/teletype/
>> though not a lot. Nothing on Kleinschmidt, Creed, Siemens, Olivetti etc.
>> The site seems to be very computer oriented, not communications, and
>> exclusively technical - no sales brochures that I could find.
>>
>> Sam
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