08-21-2008, 08:02 PM
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 Re: Source-Code for the WaveMate Bullet
On Aug 21, 6:51 pm, _
wrote:
> I just found a bunch of techincal info on the Wavemate Bullet - was in a
> storage locker I emptied after a decade and I thought some people might
> like to have it saved. If I scan it is there a cp/m repository where I
> could send the docs?
The short answer is "no, you want a hardware archive, look around".
Here's the long answer for what to look for. It's a surprisingly
difficult question.
There is no single, simple "CP/M" repository except for early Digital
Research CP/M software products and manuals. CP/M ran on dozens and
dozens of hardware systems, possibly hundreds. That's one reason it
was important in the 70's and 80's.
Hardware documentation online for systems which ran CP/M is often
found in various privately-run archives for S-100 systems; or for
archives of manuals for both minicomputers and microcomputers. There
are also specific on-line archives by company & brand. Some archives
are specialized by processor, or by "bus" like S-100. I don't know of
any "single board Z80" archives, which describes the Bullet I believe.
Also, not all archives or collections are of on-line or scanned
documents; I have an extensive PAPER archive of S-100 and related
hardware documents. I'm not the only one to offer paper copies only. I
and others list manuals by title and brand and model.
Some archives or some mirrors of archives only last a few years, or
may last for several years. The scanned on-line archives often have
overlapping contents for obvious reasons. If you want to preserve your
WaveMate documents, provide them to multiple archives.
A Google Web search or a search of posts in comp.os.cpm for "S-100
manuals" or "hardware manuals", Z80 computer hardware", etc. will find
some of these archives. Searches for brand names will find brand-
specific archives.
But there are a few large archives which cross processor and bus
boundaries, such as
http://www.bitsavers.org/
http://vt100.net/manx/ (a catalog of archive sites)
http://www.hartetechnologies.com/manuals/ (mostly but not exclusively
S-100)
...and probably others. Over periods of decades, these come and go.
That's not a joke: the first CP/M archives were started in the 1970's,
as 8-inch disk collections of contributed software.
Herb Johnson
retrotechnology.com
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