Category: Documentation

  • Summary of I/O card assignments

    I’ve never seen this manual in the UK and I’m not entirely sure what it’s attempting to document. What is interesting is that it’s referred to a “Field Engineering Manual”… and these manuals contain all the really cool stuff.

  • Description of the program interfaces

    I’ve never seen this manual in the UK and I’m not entirely sure what it’s attempting to document. I need to study this one in more detail but parts of it look like they are describing how system memory is used. What is interesting is that it’s referred to a “Field Engineering Manual”… and these…

  • Error Messages

    I’ve never seen this manual in the UK which is a shame as it looks like it would have been very useful, specifically the information around the dreaded TRAP message.

  • NIROS 7.0/02

    The NIROS manuals contain details of all operating system updates since the previous manual; including updates to BASIC, and details of new or updated hardware. Once something has been described it will not usually be covered again in subsequent manuals unless a relevant change has been made, so to get a complete picture of the…