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Processor Technology Access newsletter, Volume 1, issue #1 12 425 KB
Processor Technology Access newsletter, Volume 1, issue #2 38 518 KB
Processor Technology Access newsletter, Volume 1, issue #3
copy contributed by David Wendt
19 332 KB
Processor Technology Access newsletter, Volume 1, issue #4
scan contributed by Mike Noel
38 617 KB
Processor Technology Access newsletter, Volume 2, issue #1
scan contributed by Mike Noel
31 419 KB

A fan of the Sol computer, Stan Sokolow, ran a newsletter for Sol users from August, 1977 through the end of 1983. For the first two years of its life it was known as SOLUS News, and later changed its name to Proteus / News. Over the years, its readership, size, and publication rate varied, but it is amazing it lasted as long as it did, living about twice as long as did Processor Technology itself.

All of the issues here are in PDF format, as image-only scans. The issues of Volume 0 were supplied by Barry Watzman.

   
ALS-8 System Group, Volume 1, Number 1, March, 1977 32 592 KB
The Small Computer Catalog (1977 P.T. Catalog) 22 929 KB
Sol System Suggested Retail Price List (1977) 2 15 KB
Popular Electronics, July 1976
by Robert M. Marsh and Lee Felsenstein
cover, page 35, page 36, page 37, page 38

This is the article that introduced the Sol computer to the world. As a dodge to get around the fact that the publisher of Popular Electronics didn't want any more articles on computers, the Sol was presented as an "intelligent terminal." Note that Sol as presented in this article has an integrated cassette player where the numeric keypad ended up, and the motherboard is very different from what was eventually shipped.

The article offered free copies of the PCB artwork and drilling guide for the price of a SASE. Glenn Herrmannsfeldt did so back when and was kind enough to send a copy of it for this web site. It should be noted that this isn't he final design and in fact is reported to have quite a few errors.

Artwork and schematics, 8 pages, 600 KB
5 1.1 MB
Sol: the inside story, ROM Magazine, July 1977
by Lee Felsenstein
copy contributed by Ray Borrill, scanned and OCR'd by Bob Stek
7 22 KB
BASIC/5 strings
by Fr. Thomas McGahee
copy contributed by Ray Borrill
5 28 KB
New product notice in Kilobaud magazine, issue #2, February 1977
contributed by Gil Gutierrez
1 48 KB
This is a notice of liquidation of Processor Technology assets.
Ad was placed in Byte magazine, September, 1977.
contributed by Gil Gutierrez
1 9 KB

The first Processor Tech Access newsletter, Volume One, Number One, is presented in a format that is like the original newsletter. However, it was so painful to get Word to do anything approximately like the complex column layout was incredibly time consuming and painful. The subsequent issues have not recreated the original layout. Instead they just use a linear flow. If any Word experts want to offer advice, I'm listening.

If you have any documents online, or could make copies of documents that I don't have that you could share, please let me know.