Good day all, this may be COFF instead, but I'm not joined over there yet, might need
some Warren help/approval.
In any case, received that 3B20S 4.1 manual in good shape, unpacked it, and out fell a
little tri-fold titled "The Office Automation System (OAS) Editor-Formatter (ef)
Reference Card" emblazoned with the usual Bell Laboratories, non-disclosure note abut
the Bell System, and a nice little picture of a terminal I can't identify as well as
the full manual for this OAS leaning against it: "The Office Automation System
(OAS)" with a nice big Bell logo at the bottom of the spine.
The latter is likely a manual I spotted in a video once and couldn't make out the
name/title at the time, thought I was seeing another long-lost UNIX manual. I've
never heard of this before, and Google isn't turning up much as Office Automation
System appears to be a general industry term.
I seem to recall hearing about ef itself once or twice, some sort of pre-vi screen editor
from Bell methinks? Not super familiar with it though, I just seem to recall reading
about that before somewhere.
Anywho, dealing with a move in the near future that is hopefully into a home I own, so
pretty distracted from that scanning I keep talking about, but hopefully when I'm
settled in in a few months I can setup a proper scan bench in my new place and really go
to town on things.
- Matt G.