Locations of Main Manuals, ETC Lab

Because many past projects have left materials on media still belonging to machines and systems from that period, reference to these manuals will probably be required for recovering any of them.

They are also, of course, required for continued management of the Center's machines and the software arrangements on them.

(This diagram was drawn in xfig under SunOS 4, and captured into GIF format with xv. The .fig file is available along with the GIF file for update when appropriate.)

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Shelf or Rack
as Marked
on Diagram above

Contents of shelf or rack

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A: on the diagram above

The drawers in which are kept the original pedagogical design scripts of most, if not all, of the dialogues written prior to the Annenberg pre-calculus project starting circa. 1988 . Many were written when the Educational Technology Center was the Physics Computer Development Project (PCDP), designed for the Xerox-Honeywell Sigma-7 timesharing system. The efforts of many past authors and teachers are preserved here.

B: on the diagram above

a rack of manuals mostly documenting early versions of the UCSD p-System in detail, in versions from I.5 to III.

C: on the diagram above

bookshelves of manuals. Check here for:

• Main software:
  • Turbo Pascal
  • Turbo C (old version)
  • 386Max memory management software
  • DOS references, including Peter Norton; a DOS programmer's reference; and the MS-DOS v5. guide.
  • PC-NFS
  • Norton Utilities, v4
  • PC-Tools Deluxe
  • "Brief" text editor
  • "PC-Write" text editor (ED.EXE)
• Main hardware references:
  • EduQuest "Fifty" manuals
  • PS/2 technical reference manuals (with model 70 and 80)
  • Tandy 4000 manuals
  • Zenith Z286 manuals
  • AT&T/Olivetti PC6300 manuals, with DOS version
  • Logitech mouse -- manuals and disc
  • Multitech "multimodem" manual
  • IBM Personal Computer technical references
• Publications
  • "Elements of Programming Style," Kernighan and Plauger
• many others

D: on the diagram above

Sliding-door cabinet:

• p-System IV.2 manuals;
• fresh, unformatted boxes of discs. When they are opened, they should be formatted and placed on the lower shelves of D, beside them.
  Also contains boxes of "fresh" ribbon spools for the DECWriter III LA120 still in the main coding room. Though old they may still be usable.
• machine manuals for any remaining IBM PCjr's.

E: on the diagram above

Shelves housing software:

• Demonstration discs of completed projects.
• 5.25" discs containing the system components (operating system and Center's support software) for the p-System, for all the Center's p-System machines.
• Microsoft C and Pascal manuals for the FM-16Beta, circa 1987-88. May be useful in any later exploitation of the prototype for the Understanding Spoken Japanese project.
• 5.25" maintenance discs for these projects.
• used discs to be recycled -- i.e. used for new purposes. (In the past -- early to mid 1980's, lacking hard discs and network -- all work was done on floppies. Coders may still want them for various purposes.) Usually, the boxes containing them are labelled "R", for "recycle". (The boxes themselves, of course, are also for recycling).
• available boxes of fresh discs. These need to be formatted when they are taken from the cabinet, on a machine whose drive(s) is/are most likely to create a format readable to all the lab machines. This ability cannot be taken for granted.
• old 8-inch floppy discs (for the Reading Dynamics project, circa 1983)

F: on the diagram above

Shelves holding software discs received from elsewhere:

• Original "reference diskettes" for MicroChannel PS/2 machines.
• Original floppy discs of several installed software systems.
• Box of WD8003E ethernet cards with their driver software and manuals.
• TenCORE authoring language & system discs. It has been uninstalled for the present (it was on the PS/2 model 70 during the development of USJ-I), but if the sources of USJ-I must be examined, it will be required. Further, the running TenCORE system requires the #1 release floppy to be in drive A: at start-up to verify authorisation.
• Manuals and driver release discs for IBM's M-Motion multimedia system for PS/2's.
• Manuals and driver release discs for IBM's M-ACPA/A (Audio Capture and Playback Adapter) for PS/2's.
• others

The top shelf also holds release discs of the Scientific Reasoning Series.

G: on the diagram above

This is the file drawer in the lab manager's desk, with an index attached.
Also on the desk is a collection of software catalogues, of possible use for evaluating and ordering software packages.

H: on the diagram above

Bookshelves containing:

• remaining p-System IV.1 system manuals
• non-lab related publications.