22 Jan
2020
22 Jan
'20
2:47 a.m.
On Jan 21, 2020, at 3:53 PM, Ronald Natalie <ron(a)ronnatalie.com> wrote:
Apollo gave us the long term use of a DN1000. I ported our image processing system to
it. The amusing thing was when you fired up an X window manager on the thing, it
wrapped all three segments of the little status bar at the bottom with window borders.
The DN10000 docs came with a beautiful 5 volume set that described all the internals. It
was quite detailed for what was there. What I really needed was the documentation on the
graphics system which was in Volume 3. My set was missing this. After much digging
around Apollo, it turns out that they never wrote volume 3, just assigned the volume
number to some yet to be written document.
Also the DN10000 is extremely heavy. Mine’s in a basement and claims are it’s never coming
out…
If anyone has DN10000 documentation like Roland describes above, I would love to get my
hands on it and ensure it’s preserved. My DN10000 is a long term restoration project, and
we could use some docs.
-- Chris