[apt4ssx8] Re: IBM apt manual
- From: Dave Caroline <dave.thearchivist@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: apt4ssx8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:42:31 +0100
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 1:39 AM, Dan Falck <ddfalck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> With regard to the electronically encoded APT360 manual:
> I don't have any docbook files. When we translated that to it's
> current form, a handful of us (4 or 5 people) took a chapter at a time
> and hand typed it in. I do have a copy of the original, in a scanned
> in pdf file that was supplied to me for this job. The *pdf file is
> over 10MB in size, so please don't ask for an emailed copy. I think we
> did translate it fairly diligently.
I can tell, very few mistakes considering the size of the task
>
> Here is what I see in the opening credits:
>
> IBM Application Program
> H20-0309-3
> System/360 APT Numerical Control
> Processor (360A-CN-10X) Version 4
> Part Programming Manual
> Fourth Edition (February 1969)
> This edition is a major revision obsoleting H20-0309-2.
>
> This edition applies to Version 4, Modification Level 0 of System/360
> APT Numberical Control Processor (360A-CN-10X)
> and all subsequent versions and modifications until otherwise
> indicated in new editions or Technical Newsletters.
>
Added to the manual
>
from Kents trawling of the source
VERSION 4, MODIFICATION 4
and
This edition applies to Version 4, Modification Level 0 of System/360
We could/should find undocumented features
I wonder what IBM thought was just a modification and not worth a version bump.
Dave Caroline
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