This page contains only manuals – of hardware or software. If you want to see some Sol newsletters, articles, or ads, then check the other documents page.
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.
Sol Systems Manual
Roger Lewis has chapters I-VI at his site, www.s100computers.com. With his permission, I've mirrored those chapters here. However, his site has been AWOL for a long time.
| Chap | Document | Pages | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preface | Preface | 5 | 20 KB |
| I | INTRODUCTION and GENERAL INFORMATION | 4 | 15 KB |
| II | Sol POWER SUPPLY ASSEMBLY and TEST | 20 | 477 KB |
| III | Sol-PC ASSEMBLY and TEST | 41 | 645 KB |
| IV | PERSONALITY MODULE ASSEMBLY | 8 | 19 KB |
| V | KEYBOARD ASSEMBLY | 10 | 19 KB |
| VI | Sol CABINET-CHASSIS ASSEMBLY | 21 | 479 KB |
| VII | OPERATING PROCEDURES | 31 | 1.2 MB |
| VIII | THEORY OF OPERATION | 47 | 519 KB |
| IX |
SOFTWARE The bulk of this chapter is a listing of the CONSOL personality module ROM. That isn't included but is available in the personality module section, as "consol.orig". |
4 | 9 KB |
| X |
DRAWINGS a collection of JPGs and group-4 TIF images |
23 | 5.2 MB |
| APPENDICES | n/a | ||
| UPDATES | n/a |
Hardware Manuals
These are manuals for a few S-100 cards commonly found in Sol systems.
| Document | Pages | Size |
|---|---|---|
| 16KRA User's Manual (16KB dynamic RAM board) | 76 | 1.2 MB |
| 48KRA-1 User's Manual
(First Edition)
manual donated by Steve Maguire |
56 | 1.0 MB |
| NorthStar MICRO-DISK MDS-A-D DOUBLE DENSITY
Manual
copy contributed by Doug Coward |
40 | 235 KB |
Software Manuals
| Document | Pages | Size |
|---|---|---|
| SOLOS/CUTER User's Manual
(first revision manual) |
31 | 99 KB |
| BASIC/5 User's Manual
(first revision manual) |
39 | 91 KB |
| Extended Cassette BASIC User's Manual | 134 | 390 KB |
| 8080 Cassette FOCAL User's Manual
copy contributed by John MacPherson |
31 | 187 KB |
| Cassette PILOT User's Manual
(Release 2.2)
Copy contributed by Herb Johnson. |
82 | 983 KB |
| EDIT Advanced 8080 Editor User's Manual
(Release 1.0)
Copy contributed by Herb Johnson. |
52 | 560 KB |
| Music System User's Manual
copy contributed by John MacPherson |
45 | 268 KB |
| Software #1 Resident Assembler User's Manual | 31 | 61 KB |
| ALS-8 User's Manual
scanned by Mike Noel |
93 | 185 KB |
| Air Traffic Controller
(Creative Computing, CS-8001)
by David Mannering contributed by Bob Stek |
6 | 22 KB |
| Space Games
(CS-8003; ASTER, LUNAR, STRWR, ROMLN)
contributed by Bob Stek |
3 | 10 KB |
| Strategy Games-2
(Creative Computing, CS-8004; TRAP, WMPUS, WMPS2, RACE, KNGDM)
contributed by Bob Stek |
3 | 9 KB |
| DEBUG 8080 v1.3 manual
describes a different debugger than the one below; this one was a utility for PTDOS. donated by Paul Schaper |
8 | 15 KB |
| DEBUG ADVANCED 8080 Debugger User's Manual
describes DEBUG 1.1 |
28 | 49 KB |
| Dynamic Debugging System,
by Computer Mart of NJ
contributed by Bob Stek |
45 | 65 KB |
| 8080 Chess User's Manual
manual donated by Paul Schaper |
43 | 323 KB |
| GAMEPAC1 User's Manual
manual donated by Paul Schaper |
28 | 68 KB |
| GAMEPAC2 User's Manual
manual donated by Paul Schaper |
25 | 297 KB |
| TREK-80 User's Manual
manual donated by Paul Schaper |
14 | 108 KB |
| The Electric Pencil Word Processor User's Manual
by Michael Schrayer manual donated by Dudley Henderson |
23 | 54 KB |
| Software Music Synthesizer System
by Jon Bokelman manual scanned by Bob Stek |
31 | 726 KB |
| Dual Personality Module for Sol Computers
manual, by Micro Complex
manual donated by Bob Stek |
10 | 31 KB |
| Processor Technology Extended Cassette BASIC on CP/M
by TAD Enterprises Copy contributed by Bob Stek. This is the manual that came with a product to convert PT Extended Cassette BASIC to run under CP/M. |
8 | 114 KB |
Only after scanning, OCR'ing, cleaning up, and formatting the "SOLOS/CUTER Users Manual" and the "BASIC/5 Users Manual" did I find out that these are the first printing of these manuals. I also have the third printing of each of this, after P.T. had moved to Pleasanton. The BASIC/5 manual is largely the same with only minor additions. Unfortunately, the SOLOS/CUTER manual got quite a bit better in the later revision. I kind of doubt that I'll get around to OCR'ing that version.
PTDOS Manuals
| Document | Pages | Size |
|---|---|---|
| PTDOS 1.5 User's Manual
(OS User's Guide)
manual donated by Steve Maguire |
164 | 1.7 MB |
| PTDOS 1.5 User's Manual
(Applications)
manual donated by Steve Maguire |
144 | 1.4 MB |
| Extended Disk Fortran User's Manual
(First Edition)
manual donated by Steve Maguire |
139 | 1.5 MB |
| WordWizard User's Manual
(First Edition)
manual donated by Steve Maguire |
92 | 1.2 MB |
| Helios II User's Manual
(First Edition)
manual donated by Steve Maguire |
36 | 495 KB |