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Complete set 3b1 manuals - last call

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ga...@speakeasy.org

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Oct 11, 2008, 4:37:46 PM10/11/08
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I have a complete set of 3b1 manuals in excellent condition.
I am not going to just give them away, but I am open to
reasonable offers.

Gary

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Thad Floryan

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Oct 13, 2008, 10:33:10 PM10/13/08
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On Oct 11, 1:37 pm, g...@speakeasy.org wrote:
> I have a complete set of 3b1 manuals in excellent condition.
> I am not going to just give them away, but I am open to
> reasonable offers.

It might be helpful to list what comprises a "complete set"
of 3B1 manuals by title. :-)

DoN. Nichols

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Oct 13, 2008, 11:38:33 PM10/13/08
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Especially whether it includes the _Technical Reference Manual_ .

And the secondary set which came with the development set solved
a lot of puzzles left by the Foundation set -- including how to use the
editor "ed" which the GUI would toss you into when you clicked on a file
if you hadn't installed a fancier editor (including vi(1), which you
only got with the Development Set.

Exactly how they expected a businessman to deal with ed(1) --
practically no prompt and no feedback to your commands unless you knew
the magic few commands to get status information from it, such as where
you were in the file. :-)

Of course -- they expected Mr. Businessman to buy a word
processor which would get installed as his default editor. Only a unix
geek would run without a wordprocessor. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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ga...@speakeasy.org

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Oct 15, 2008, 4:13:47 PM10/15/08
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ga...@speakeasy.org wrote:
> I have a complete set of 3b1 manuals in excellent condition.
> I am not going to just give them away, but I am open to
> reasonable offers.
>
> Gary
>
> wota...@yahoo.com


I have a bid on the manuals. There are 23 manuals, weighing 70 pounds.
I can go back a list them all if you are really interested in bidding.

I also have a six binder set of Microport 286 SysV/AT Manuals if anyone
is interested in them.

gary

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