Some comments from Jens, who did this scan on February 27th, 2022
I got this service manual from my dad when I was 14 – that was in
1988. Back then, computer literature was expensive, and it was about
the only tech reference that I had for the Sirius/Victor 9000.
The manual taught me a lot back then, and it surely contributed to me
becoming a hardware designer today. The „Theory of operation“ section
goes way deeper than any of the already-scanned literature out there
(specifically on bitsavers.org).
This scan is not yet complete, as section six is fold-out pages that
are twice the size of what I believe is US letter format. These pages
are particularly interesting, as they contain hand-written pencil
notes from a German engineer/technician who either knew a lot about
the machine, or had tech training from Victor (or both). I called my
dad a few days ago to hear if he remembers who that might have been,
but he doesn‘t know. His company was mostly a software company, and
he rarely ever talked to the hardware guys.
My ScanSnap iX500 scanner is not big enough to eat this page size,
and my A3 flat bed scanner died on me years ago (beyond repair – I
tried!). The ScanSnap allows scanning A3, but it‘s a manual process
that requires you to put the page into a special transparent
envelope. However, this will only produce two A4 scans, and not a
full A3 document, so there will always be a line in the middle. Tried
it with bad results, stopped after an hour – it‘s worthless.
If you have a suggestion for a ScanSnap-type scanner that can pull in
A3 pages, I‘m happy to look at. I have lots of schematics in formats
similar to A3 that could be scanned, so I‘m willing to spend money if
it‘s as fast as the ScanSnap product.
Contact me:
eMail: jens@icomp.de
twitter: @schoenfeld_jens
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