[apt4ssx8] Re: IBM apt manual

  • From: "Kent A. Reed" <kentallanreed@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: apt4ssx8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 09:25:29 -0400

On 6/18/2012 8:39 PM, Dan Falck 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.

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.




Dan:

I hope you didn't think I was suggesting that you folks were in any way remiss. Quite the contrary, I am hugely impressed at the hard work that was done---specific cases in point, the mapped-in images of equations and figures. Over the years I have put in a lot of hours editing 1000s of pages of technical documents for IGES, STEP, and other standards because others wouldn't and I know hard work when I see it.

You have provided exactly the information I was seeking. Now I know not to go chasing after that particular document in my quest.

Thanks for both the hard work in the past and this info now.

Regards,
Kent


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