AutoArchaeologist’s manuals

There’s not much substance here yet because AA started out as hack, turned into a bunch of hacks, got rewritten into somewhat structured hacks, then became a library for writing hacks and so on.

I have relatively good confidence that the fundamental data structures and classes have settled down now, and as I go through things I will try to document them properly here.

Right now you wont get far if you cannot program in python, but I plan to add a command-line interface to AA which makes it usable for more normal people too.

/phk (2024-09-26)

Table of content

For users

• Examiners
  • Generic Examiners
    • AnsiTapeLabels - ANSI/ECMA13 Tape Labels
    • BigText - Human readable text on paper-tape
    • SameSame - artifacts where all bytes are the same
    • SCCS Id strings
  • IBM Examiners
    • IBM 6580 DisplayWriter floppy disks
      • Some hints if you want to work on this:
    • IBM GA21-9182 Floppy labels
  • Intergraph Examiners
    • Intergraph diskpar(4) disk partitioning
  • Ohio Scientific (“OSI”) Examiners
• Collections
  • Datamusem.dk
  • Bitsavers.org

For programmers

• Programmer’s Guide
  • Data model
  • OctetView - A tutorial
  • Sightseeing

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page