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De,
I sent almost all my non-confidential material to the Computer History
Museum on the west coast. I think they were all copied to bitsavers
and are available there.

I sent my tanberg tape reader and three copies of my prime exl tapes
to Don Koch who was unable to access the material. He may still have
the tapes.  If you had access to an EXL with the tapes, I would see
if he still has the tapes. There is a good deal of material I would
like to retrieve from them.  I wish I had copied all of it over to 
the Primos Side.  Those archives all survived 100%.

Ed

On Sat, 11 Feb 2023 19:01:52 +0000, drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis
Boone) wrote:

>Ed,
>
> > Unfortunately X-Mode did not quite make into a product. When I was
> > laid off in 1992 they were working on a CMOS CPU that had the
> > microcode for X-Mode including IEEE floating point. So the latest
> > instruction manuals were 1987. What I am looking for are internal
> > manuals by the compiler people or the OS people.
>
>That's about what I was remembering.  I assume there were PETs for the
>architectural changes, and for software support of same?
>
>The latest scans I have are 1987, and I don't think I have any paper
>that's newer, though that could be buried in a stack somewhere easily
>enough.  But there's at least a DOC9473-3LA that's later than that 1987
>Rev.21 edition.
>
>I would dearly love it if Dons Slutz or Koch (or any other engineers, I
>just pick on them because I know that as of fairly recently they were
>still around in MA, and one of them had an annual bbq) had paper or
>media in their possession and could share it to the preservation
>community.
>
>IIRC your paper materials went to a university collection.  Rice?
>Babbaage?
>
> > I had put my latest stuff on EXL tapes and this info was lost.
> > My older stuff was on Primos tapes and I got all of it off.
>
>Are the tapes destroyed, or you just don't have a mechanism for reading
>them?  If the latter, I think we can find a solution.
>
>I should probbably mention that there are two 50-Series emulators, both
>on github, in case you weren't aware.
>
>De

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  Re: X-Mode kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-02-10 16:16 +0000
    Re: X-Mode drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-02-11 02:04 +0000
      Re: X-Mode ukctya <spsrich@gmail.com> - 2023-02-11 06:05 -0800
        Re: X-Mode drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-02-11 19:32 +0000
        Re: X-Mode drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-02-11 19:41 +0000
      Re: X-Mode Edward Feustel <efeustel@hughes.net> - 2023-02-11 10:56 -0500
        Re: X-Mode drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-02-11 19:01 +0000
          Re: X-Mode Edward Feustel <efeustel@hughes.net> - 2023-02-15 08:24 -0500
            Re: X-Mode drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-02-15 17:43 +0000
              Re: X-Mode Jim Wilcoxson <prirun@gmail.com> - 2023-02-16 05:14 -0800
                Re: X-Mode Edward Feustel <efeustel@feustel.us> - 2023-02-17 05:51 -0500
                Re: X-Mode ukctya <spsrich@gmail.com> - 2023-02-17 07:02 -0800
                Re: X-Mode drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-02-17 18:46 +0000
                Re: X-Mode Jim Wilcoxson <prirun@gmail.com> - 2023-02-18 05:56 -0800
                Re: X-Mode drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2023-02-18 17:51 +0000
                Re: X-Mode Edward Feustel <efeustel@feustel.us> - 2023-02-24 05:51 -0500
                Re: X-Mode kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-02-18 15:08 +0000
  Re: X-Mode bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-02-11 19:05 -0500
    Re: X-Mode Edward Feustel <efeustel@hughes.net> - 2023-02-15 08:34 -0500
      Re: X-Mode bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-02-16 08:28 -0500
        Re: X-Mode Edward Feustel <efeustel@feustel.us> - 2023-02-17 05:55 -0500
          Re: X-Mode bill <bill.gunshannon@gmail.com> - 2023-02-17 12:39 -0500
            Re: X-Mode Edward Feustel <efeustel@feustel.us> - 2023-02-24 05:58 -0500

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