G'day Jay (and other HP TSB fanatics) -
I have scanned and placed on the web an Internals Guide for HP T.S.B. that
was written around 1969. It describes all of the core and disk structures
used in these early systems plus has hand-written flow charts (!) for each
command, the BASIC (semi-) compiler, runtime and decompiler. It is
available at:
http://www.simulogics.com/public/hp/HP_TSB_Internals_August-1969.pdf
Yes, there is a story behind obtaining the manual: I received it -
accidently - from HP as part of a graduate class project I was working on at
the time and was supposed to return it to HP since it was never to have been
sent to me (company confidential material you know). Hmmm, I guess I
forgot to do that and was waiting for the 33+ year statute of limitations to
run out... ;-)
Have fun.
And Al - please download for your HP archives at your convenience.
Bruce
Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc.
bkr_at_WildHareComputers.com
...preserving the Data General legacy: www.NovasAreForever.com
Received on Thu Jul 29 2004 - 22:31:51 BST