[TriLUG] Any value in decades old mainframe manuals andprintouts?

[Brian Henning]

Oh wow.  That's wicked!  Makes me want to run out and find an ET6800.

~B

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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of Steve Litt
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 4:45 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Any value in decades old mainframe manuals
andprintouts?

On Monday 27 July 2009 12:06:07 Peter Neilson wrote:
> Don Hammond wrote:
> > I'm cleaning up and going through boxes and boxes of manuals and
> > printouts that my late brother saved, and trying to figure out if
> > there's any value to them. By value, I mean research, historical
> > collection, curiosity, reminiscing, etc., not monetary.
>
> Today's trash is tomorrow's antiques.
>
> The computer museum, once in Boston but now somewhere on the left
coast,
> would know what's valuable. Generally stuff like that gets tossed, and
> finally there's only a tiny bit of interest by a few people. Then much
> later the historians come along, and say, "You tossed out THAT? How
> could you?!!???"

On that note, here is documentation from a very sophisticated 1982 big
iron 
application. Warning, 13MB, slow load:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200610/computerguitar/index.htm

SteveT
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