> On Mar 11, 2016, at 4:31 PM, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinha...@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/11/2016 4:05 PM, Paul Koning wrote:
>>
>>> On Mar 11, 2016, at 3:50 PM, John H. Reinhardt <johnhreinha...@yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> SOC is the DEC "Systems and Options Catalog" Great stuff for research on
>>> when parts were available, what options were considered supported for
>>> systems and all around good times. They were usually thick (200-300 pages
>>> at least in the later VAX era) and came out quarterly (?). Would be a
>>> handful to scan, but oh so nice to have.
>>
>> You mean the Option/Module List, from Dick Best? There are a number of
>> issues of that (1973 to 1975, and one from 1983) on Bitsavers already. An
>> issue close to those dates is perhaps not all that interesting; one from a
>> significantly different date would be quite a find.
>
> These were catalogs from DEC. Here's one example that I did find on
> Bitsavers
> <https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_deccatalogtionsCatalogNov96_36196682>
>
> There might be more of them available than I had thought...
>
> I didn't know about the lists from Dick Best. I will have to check them out.
Sounds different then. The Option/Module List was an internal DEC document,
not something meant for outsiders to see.
paul
