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  • Re: Gregory manuals, available anywhere?

    From Einar Flaathe@einar.a.flaathe@gmail.com to comp.sys.unisys on Sun May 14 06:07:36 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.unisys

    On Monday, 16 April 2018 at 22:46:56 UTC+2, Louis Krupp wrote:
    On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 11:54:40 -0700, Paul Kimpel <paul....@digm.com>
    wrote:
    On 4/15/2018 8:45 AM, rodger wrote:
    the last price I saw on a Gregory algol 1 was $40 and listed as no longer available (Amazon). I'm sorry I threw way all my manuals?? Luckily Unisys has manuals available for free. but Not aftermarket manuals. I have the DVD from Unisys with every manual they have. I kept that. There is nothing like hard copy. I can't stand paging through a PDF.

    Sorry, there are no more paper manuals, and haven't been for the better >part of 20 years. If you want hard copy, you'll have to print it from
    the PDF yourself.

    The UNITE user association (www.unite.org) acquired rights to all of the >Gregory Publishing materials from Don's widow a couple of years ago. I >believe they have copies of all the Gregory manuals, and I know they
    have all of the source code. They are trying to decide how to make this >available to their membership. Alas, the manuals are in paper form only
    -- the electronic files (if they even still exist) are for publishing >software that definitely no longer exists.
    <snip>

    If the files exist -- and that's a big if -- then decoding them should
    be possible given sufficient time and motivation.

    Louis
    Gregory Publishing Company Burroughs manuals.
    Hi,
    Are the Burroughs Corporation records and Gregory Publishing Company Burroughs manuals available for download in PDF format?
    Best regards,
    Einar
    Hi Einar,
    Here is a link to the PDF files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ecIdSnOmlbFM76wcCtSzELzpYBWTycZo?usp=sharing
    Best,
    Amanda
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