20 Jun
2024
20 Jun
'24
5:10 a.m.
On 6/19/24 4:03 PM, Rik Farrow wrote:
Someone who had previously worked at Lawrence
Livermore Labs offered me the VMS source on microfiche, sometime around 1990. I turned him
down...
Rik
I have thousands of sheets of DEC Microfiche. Base VMS sources up through version 5-ish
aren't rare.
Companies have regular purges of engineering documentation for obsolete products.
We were lucky at CHM to have a friend as the archivist at HP in the 00s and we were able
to save lots of material
from a few of their computer lines (HP1000, 68K 9000, and some Apollo) and the DEC
corporate paper
archive.