--- "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh_at_aracnet.com> wrote:
> >I don't recall the question, but I have the VMS 1.0 docs in a storage
> >locker.
>
> You have VMS V1.0 doc's?!?!?! Out of curiousity how big are they? That's
> something that would be very cool to get scanned in.
Larger than the RT-11v4 set (same blue binders), much smaller than an Orange
Wall. I think there are two cartons of binders, so call it 12 volumes of
several hundred pages each.
I was thinking about these very docs this weekend and the other thread about
OCR and scan densities, etc. I'm wondering if it'd be worth it to OCR
something
like this and, rather than storage as flat text or HTML, attempt to push the
text back into RUNOFF. Does anyone have a RUNOFF clone in perl? I presume
that
excepting strange dependence on odd, undocumented behavior (i.e., plain, by-
the-book usage), it wouldn't be difficult to make a state-based RUNOFF engine
in perl.
obHistory:
Software Results did not get a VAX until the 11/750 came out (I still have
that one...s/n BT000354, ordered the day they were announced), but they did
port the HASPBOX software from the PDP-11/70 to the VAX at DEC's request (on
11/780 s/n 00006, a sales-demo model at the home office, as we were told - DEC
had a customer who wouldn't upgrade to a VAX unless it could get files to/from
the IBM mainframe, just like his PDP-11 ;-) I presume the docs came out of
that early developement effort.
The next time I am at the storage unit, I will look for the manuals.
-ethan
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Received on Mon Jul 02 2001 - 11:44:50 BST