Tony Thank you for responding to this query earlier, as you did to my query in Summer '22.
I have had a quick "go" at compressing the big pdfs, brute force Acrobat Pro looks not to cut it, to avoid pixelation the circuits require little compression and to reduce volume the text requires more compression. Therefore, either human effort or a better tool is required ... FWIW having downloaded your google drive version of the file I could not open it. Martin -----Original Message----- From: Tony Duell via cctalk [mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: 12 December 2024 18:29 To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Cc: Malcolm Clark <malcolmc.h...@gmail.com>; Tony Duell <ard.p850...@gmail.com> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Information on Trend UTR 700 Paper Tape Reader and Facit 4060 Punch On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 6:02 PM Malcolm Clark via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > Hi Martin, > I am looking for a manual for the above tape reader and found your > details from a discussion on cctalk from July 2022. > > I am a volunteer at The National Museum of Computing and an ex > Ferranti engineer. I am currently restoring an Argus 500 computer and > trying to get it back to its original configuration. I have recently > restored 2 Trend HSR 500 readers and now have acquired 2 UDR 700 > readers that need to be fixed and set up. I've uploaded the UDR350/UDR700 manual to my google drive here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tqFbQ9S1SJd4DwsR6J7qlBiEWVpbmKnc/view?usp=sharing It's a _LARGE_ file, you might be able to compress it somehow. Please let me know when you've taken it so I can delete it to save space on the googled drive, of course I'll keep a copy on my machine. Do you also need the HSR500/HSR500P manual? I have that too. > My latest video on YouTube > > https://youtu.be/8HtRqe6jzc8?si=MmRL4qbh_7PZjVff > > In the email you said you had scanned the document into a file. Would > it be possible to upload it to Google Drive and send me the link so I > can download it? Ultimately I would like to upload it to the Museum > archive and make it available for everyone to view. I am assuming > that there are no copyright issues as Trend was finally wound up as a > company in December 2022. It's probably still under copyright owned by somebody, but my experience is that companies don't normally care about 50-year-old service manuals. -tony
