Manuals / Documents: any interest?

[cvt...@hsh.com]

Company is moving soon. Have located a pile of documentation. Have
never had a VAX so must have accumulated it with PDP stuff at some
point.

There is literally 50" bookshelf full of Open VMS manuals and
documents. Too many too list.

After that, there is:

VAX Pascal Volume 1&2

VAX C - Guide to VAX C
VAX C - Runtime library reference manual

VAX Basic - Volume 1, User Manual
VAX Basic - Volume 2, Reference Manual
VAX Basic - Volume 3, Programming with VAX Basic Graphics

VAX Fortran User Manual
VAX Fortran Language Reference Manual

WordPerfect for VMS

and a pile of Pathworks for VMS and Pathworks for DOS manuals and
such.

It's in northern New Jersey; shipping is not possible. Would prefer to
give all to a single good home.

-HSH

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

cvt...@hsh.com wrote:
> Company is moving soon. Have located a pile of documentation. Have
> never had a VAX so must have accumulated it with PDP stuff at some
> point.

> There is literally 50" bookshelf full of Open VMS manuals and
> documents. Too many too list.

(snip)

> It's in northern New Jersey; shipping is not possible. Would prefer to
> give all to a single good home.

I am in Seattle, have a nice fast scanner, and could scan and send
to bitsavers any that were sent to me.

I don't know how common or rare any of those are.

-- glen

[JF Mezei]

cvt...@hsh.com wrote:

> There is literally 50" bookshelf full of Open VMS manuals and
> documents. Too many too list.

The VMS docset is commonly called the "wall" becaise it took up so much
bookshelf space.

The big question is whether you have the grey wall or the orange wall :-)

[Jay E. Morris]

Hmmm. Wall 'o VMS books or marriage.
Books or marriage.

Gotta go with the mar...let me think about it.

[cvt...@hsh.com]

That's 50-INCH, not foot. It's the gray-bindered variety. The OpenVMS
stuff is white, soft bound stuff, deaturing such greatest hits as
"OpenVMS Debugger Manual".

[cvt...@hsh.com]

Not a full wall. Just the pieces mentioned...

[cvt...@hsh.com]

By all means feel free to jump on a plane, cruise on out and take them
home with you! 100% free of charge. Act now... limited time offer...
not sold in stores! (grin)

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

cvt...@hsh.com wrote:

(snip, someone wrote)

>> > There is literally 50" bookshelf full of Open VMS manuals and
>> > documents. Too many too list.

(then I wrote)

>> I am in Seattle, have a nice fast scanner, and could scan and send
>> to bitsavers any that were sent to me.

>> I don't know how common or rare any of those are.

> By all means feel free to jump on a plane, cruise on out and take them
> home with you! 100% free of charge. Act now... limited time offer...
> not sold in stores! (grin)

The OP should have said which version they were for, so we would
know if they were already available in scanned form.

There is someone out east that nicely sends me IBM manuals to scan.
I have probably scanned about 40,000 pages of them by now.

The language manuals might be less common than the OS manuals.

-- glen

[cvt...@hsh.com]

Apologies for that. It would appear that the OpenVMS stuff applies to
verison 6 (Docs are dates May 1993) while the gray wall language stuff
looks to be VAX 5.0 and higher. That said, I didn't open every item on
the shelf... interestingly enough, there is a AA-PV6YA-TK booklet
entitled "Overview of OpenVMS Documentation". A short review seems to
indicate the docs here include the Base Documentation Kit, and
portions or perhaps all of the the Master Reference Kit,
the Advanced System Management Kit, the Networking Kit, the Release
Notes Kit and the Programming Kit.

-HSH

This stuff really isn't my day job. I'm just hoping to find this stuff
a better home than the dumpster.