While I only scored about 22% on the Geek Test, it didn't have any
questions pertaining to writing and editing about 300 pages of
documentation for a twenty year old computer system that wasn't well
known, and doing so about twenty years after it was manufactured.
While printing out some files of less "geekish" writings, I discovered
some, rather lengthy, documentation that I was working on about a
decade ago, and never got around to comleting.
So... what did I do? Well, originally, I wrote the documentation for
the MINT document processing software, which is somewhat like Scribe,
which ran on PERQ workstations (the documentation is about PERQs).
Today, I converted the MINT source file to a LaTeX file. It only
contains about 50 chapters and is only about 300 pages in length, not
counting the index which I haven't added to it yet. It's sort of a
compendum of all sorts of interesting bits of information (technical
as well as historical) about PERQs, gleaned from conversations with
others, note from OS source code, varions documents from PERQ systems,
etc., etc., etc. Not complete yet... maybe it will be in another
decade at the rate I'm going, but I felt that I should at least get it
into a printable format and prepare to pass it along to other PERQ
fanatics in case I croak, so that it won't vanish into the land of
/dev/null... and so that others can contribute to it, and help
preserve it, to make it the ultimate unofficial PERQ reference book once
it's completed.
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