Manx是一个老式计算机手册目录,是一个开源项目,托管在GitHub上。
许多手册由于是扫描版而非文本版,搜索引擎难以找到。虽然谷歌可以索引这些扫描文档,但Manx提供了更多元数据信息,包括已知但尚未在线的文档信息。Manx的搜索引擎目前仅限于搜索零件号、标题和关键字。
该目录主要涵盖小型机和大型机制造商,以及终端和打印机等相关设备。对于微型计算机,Tiziano's 1000 BiT是更好的选择。
Manx目前收录了约22060份手册,其中9992份已在线,分布在61个网站上。Manx涵盖以下公司:
3Com Corporation, Abekas Video Systems, Inc., ABLE Communications, Acorn Computers Limited, Adaptec, Inc., Adax, Inc., Addmaster Corporation, Advanced Digital Corporation, Advanced Electronics Design, Inc., Advanced Micro Devices, Advanced Scientific Instruments, Inc., Aesthedes N.V., Alpha Microsystems, Altos Computer Systems, Ampex Corporation, Ampro Computers, Inc., Analogic Corporation, Anderson Jacobson, Inc., Ann Arbor Terminals, Inc., Apollo Computer, Inc., Apple Computer, Applied Computer Techniques Ltd., Applied Digital Data Systems, Applied Microsystems Corporation, Archive Corporation, Artec Electronics, Inc., AT&T Information Systems, Ball Brothers Research Corporation, Basic Four Corporation, Beehive International, Bell Laboratories, Bondwell Holding Ltd., Brooktree Corporation, BTI Computer Systems, Burroughs Corporation, C. Itoh Electronics, CADO System Corporation, California Computer Products, Inc. (CalComp), California Computer Systems, Callan Data Systems, Central Data Corporation, Centronics, Centronics Data Computer Corp., Century Data Systens, Citizen, CompuPro, Computer Control Company, Compu/Time, Control Data Corporation, Corvus Systems, Inc., Courier Terminal Systems, Inc., Cromemco, Inc., Data Dynamics Ltd., Data Electronics, Inc., Data General Corporation, Data I/O Corporation, Data Systems Design, Inc., Data Terminals and Communications, Datamedia Corporation, Datapoint Corporation, Datapro Research Corporation, Dataproducts Corporation, Decision Data, Delta Data Systems, Diablo Systems, Inc., Digital Engineering Incorporated, Digital Equipment Corporation, Digital Research, Inc., Digitronics Corporation, Display Industry Association, Distributed Logic Corporation (Dilog), Documation, Inc., Dual Systems Corporation, DY 4 Systems Inc., EG&G, Emulex Corporation, Epson, Evans and Sutherland, Facit, Fairchild Semiconductor, Inc., Falco Data Products, Ferranti Ltd., John Fluke Mfg. Co., Inc., Friden, Inc., General Electric, GraphOn Corporation, GRI Computer Corporation, Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc., Hazeltine Corporation, Heath/Zenith, Hewlett-Packard, Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Human Designed Systems, Inc., Imlac Corporation, Incoterm, Informer Inc., Infoton Incorporated, INMOS Limited, Intecolor Corporation, Intel Corporation, Interdata/Perkin-Elmer, Intergraph Corporation, International Business Machines, International Computers and Tabulators Limited, IRIS Graphcis, Inc., ITT, Jupiter Systems, Inc., Kimtron Corporation, A/S Kongsberg VÃ¥penfabrikk, Lear Siegler, Inc., Liberty Electronics, Lundy Electronics & Systems, Inc., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Matrix Instruments Inc., Matrox Electronic Systems, Ltd., Megatek Corporation, Memorex Corporation, Metheus Corporation, Micro-Term Incorporated, Microdata Corporation, MIPS Computer Systems Incorporated, MITS, Inc., Moore Corporation, Morrow Designs, Motorola, National Semiconductor Corporation, NEC Electronics Inc., Network Computing Devices, Nixdorf Computer Corporation, Nuclear Data Inc., Oki Electric Industry Company, Ltd., Omron Corporation, Osborne Computer Corporation, PERQ Systems Corporation, Pixar, Prime Computer, Inc., Qume Corporation, Ramtek, Random Corporation, Research, Inc., Research Machines, S&H Computer Systems, Inc., S3 Incorporated, Sanders Associates, Inc., Seattle Computer Products, Inc., Shugart Associates, Silicon Graphics Inc., Singer Business Machines, Sony Microsystems Corporation, Soroc Technology, Inc., Sperry Corporation, Stardent Computer, Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Tandy Corporation, TEC Incorporated, Tektronix, Teletype Corporation, TeleVideo, Telex Terminal Communications, Terak Corporation, Texas Instruments, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, Vector Graphics, Inc., Vectrix Corporation, Versatec, Visual Technology Inc., VLSI Technology, Inc., Vermont Microsystems, Inc., Volker-Craig Ltd., Weitek Corporation, Western Digital Corporation, Western Electric, WICAT Systems, Wyse Technology, Xebec Systems, Inc., Xerox Corporation, Zilog, Inc.
以下列出了Manx包含的网站。由于Manx仍在建设中,并非所有网站的内容都已编目。如果您知道其他网站上有相关手册,请创建一个标有“data”标签的问题。即使网站只包含一份手册,也值得列入。此列表按Manx中包含的日期排序。
Paul Williams' VT100.net
Wilber Williams' Computer Museum
Al Kossow's Bitsavers
Aaron Nabil's PDP-8.org, a LINC, PDP-5, PDP-8 and PDP-12 resource
Kevin McQuiggin's PDP-8 page at Highgate
Chris Kennedy's archive of Henk Gooijen's scans
Eric Smith's 36bit.org
The DFWCUG Historical CPU Preservation Society
Trailing Edge PDP-10 Documents
Patrick Finnegan's Computer Refuge
Ivy's MDS Mirror (Low Bandwidth)
Christopher McNabb's MDS Mirror
David Gesswein's PDP8.net (Low Bandwidth)
www.xenya.si
John Wilson's D Bit, Home of Ersatz-11
Carl Friend's Minicomputer "Museum"
Gordon Bell's CyberMuseum for Digital Equipment Corporation
David Gesswein's Mirror of PDP8.net at Highgate
Zane Healy's Computer Museum
John's Retro Computing Notes
Sebastian Brückner's site
James Carter's site
Kees Stravers' VAXarchive
DECstation Linux
Bill King's PDP-11 Documentation
Hewlett-Packard Company
tmk.com software archive
CHDUpdate Computer Club FTP archives
Southwest Museum of Engineering, Communications and Computation
Johnny Billquist's old computers
Mike Noel's Virtual Alpha Micro (Low Bandwidth)
Digital Networks
Historical Computer Literature at the University of Virginia
The Australian Computer Museum Society
ELVIRA
Oracle's Sun Microsystems page
bitchin100.com
Howard M. Harte's S-100 Archive
Vassilis Prevelakis's HP Series 80 site
Bridlewood Software Testers' Guild
Dave's Old Computers
Howard Shubs' IBM 1130 site
WoTUG – The Place for Communicating Processes
Ben Mesander's site
Antonio Carlini's Scans
Compaq Maintenance Documentation Service on CD-ROM, DIGITAL-branded Products, September 1999
hcps collection
Mark Smotherman's CPSC 330 Computer Systems Organization Course
Chicago Classic Computing's document archive
SGI technical publications library
cray-cyber.org Documentation
R. Stricklin's Retrotechnology Research Lab
Marcus and Agata's miniature website (Low Bandwidth)
Great stuff for industry, DIY'ers, collectors and everybody else.
Matt Burke's 9TRACK.net
Welcome to my collection of old DEC (and some Compaq) computers.
Norm Aleks and Brian Knittel's site dedicated to the IBM 1130
Manx
DFWCUG HCPS: DEC Manuals and Print Sets (Low Bandwidth)
一些网站被标记为低带宽。它们要么使用家庭DSL线路,要么由网站所有者指示不要使用工具镜像。这并非对网站实用性的否定!
**鸣谢**
Paul Williams使用perl编写了Manx的初始版本,并录入了所有初始数据。感谢Paul!
JetBrains捐赠了PHPStorm PHP开发环境的许可证,用于开发此代码。感谢JetBrains!
当Paul Williams下线其实现时,Richard Thomson使用PHP重写了Manx。Richard是当前代码的维护者。