Intel documentation - additions

[Jon Hales]

Hello

I recently collected some Intel documents and 8-inch disks - from two sources.

In both cases, I have compared the items received against previous listings. This is more complicated than it may appear at first sight.

For documents, I scanned 187 front pages and extracted text with OCR. The initial categories were documents with an Order Number easily accessible on the front cover and those with no order number in the OCR. This not to discard the latter, but to treat them as a secondary set (for attention in future). There were 148 records which had an Order number (39 without). Order numbers in both lists were reduced to six digits, discarding any digits or characters representing revisions.

The reference list of documents was one I compiled in 2021 with a total of 4904 titles. This included OCR from the 1984, 1989 and 1992 'Intel Literature Guides', as well as listings based on the online collections hosted by Mark Ogden, Bill Beech, Archive.org and Intel-Vintage.info (all of which were derived to some degree from Bitsavers.org). I acknowledge that the online sources may have been updated since I compiled the list. Also, I did not access the 75 'DataBooks' on Bitsavers to extract the titles of documents that were also issued in other series, such as 'Application Notes'.

For the purposes of the current exercise, a recently received document was treated as 'additional' if it was not matched to any of the Mark, Bill, Archive.org or Intel-Vintage.info collections. There were 42 documents that were not found in any of the sources previously used. And a further 43 that were matched to one or more of the literature guides (but not to online sources). These titles are listed - in two categories - in the attached file 'AddedDocs.csv'.

To request a scan (searchable PDF) of an entire document (or several), please reply with the items you wish to see marked in column (F) 'TO SCAN?'. A useful marker would be your name.

With the 8-inch Intel original disks, I have identified 30 titles/versions that appear to be additional to the Intel disks listed on Mark Ogden's website. Filename 8inchIntelV3a.csv. I plan to create disk images of these in the coming weeks.

Best regards

Jon

[mark.p...@btinternet.com]

Jon

I have attached a marked up version  of your document list using your scan? Column.

Indictors are

n – document already exists in my repository

y – document doesn’t appear to be in my repository, however note, some data sheets may already be in catalogues that are in the repository. If they are, they may have different numbers e.g. AFN-xxxxx

      Note (older) indicates that there is a version in my repository but the one you have is an earlier version

? – may be in my repository. Hopefully the short note explains what needs to be checked to confirm.

 

Mark

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[scott baker]

Lots of interesting stuff there, and I'm looking forward to seeing some of it. In particular the 4MBIT bubble memory datasheets and the info on the ISIS Cluster board.

I'm also curious about the RMX/80 disks. I've played with ISIS and I've played with RMX/86, not not RMX/80...

Scott

[Jon Hales]

Mark

Many thank for your observations about those documents. I'll do further checking. I hope I made it clear that I was matching solely on the six-digit Order Number - and should probably have added a note about the limitations of Intel's usage of those codes, including re-issuing documents in the databooks.

In addition to the disks I listed, there's a box of about 10 disks used by the original owner. I haven't referred to these disks, pending an investigation of the contents.

One of these other disks has 'Super Star Trek'. I'm hoping that the disk will turn out to contain source code.

Regards

Jon

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[andre...@gmail.com]

Thanks Jon for the document inventory and to Mark for the detailed cross-checking

 

Jon,

I only had these two that caught my eye and that I would like, and both may be the same document with different number as Mark has noted.

Thanks

Craig

218	iSBC 016A/032A/064A/028A/056A RAM MEMORY BOARDS	Order Number: 210343 001	210343 001	210343	? May be same as 143572-001
227	iSBC 80/16 SINGLE BOARD	Order Number: 210593-001	210593-001	210593	? May be same as 144779-001

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[Royce Taft]

Is “DCE-49A” a type-o (or mis-OCR) for “ICE-49A”?

202

DCE-49A MCS-48 IN-CIRCUIT EMULATOR

Order Number: 162400-002

162400-002

162400

If so, I would be interested in that documentation to supplement what Martyn Vale has figure out on his own. 

Thanks,

Royce

[craig andrews]

I don’t want to hijack this thread, but Scott’s mention of the cluster boarded reminded me that (I think) I have the cluster board EPROM contents (attached).  My board only had one eprom populated.  I think Bill and Richard worked on this several years ago, but I am not sure how that effort ended.