On Sun, 9 Feb 1997, Chris G. Demetriou wrote:

.. So, as many of you know, i've slowly been growing a collection of DEC
.. documentation references and, when possible, on-line copies of
.. documentation.  I've spent the weekend seriously revamping the
.. collection.  It's still in need of a lot of work, but i thought i'd
.. point it out to you all.
.. 
.. It's at
.. 
.. 	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/dec-docs/
.. 


.. However, I'd like to add on-line documentation for DEC's older
.. hardware, too.  If you know of on-line documentation (text,
.. PostScript, whatever) for other hardware (VAX, DECstation, option
.. boards), please get in touch with me.  (I know that there exist some
.. on-line docs for DECstation hardware, but don't have time to go track
.. them down.  Could somebody do this?)

Take a look at ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/specs:

total 636
lrwxrwxrwx   1 0        0             34 Apr 14  1995
00README-Legal-Rules-Regs -> .
./../../00README-Legal-Rules-Regs     
-r--r--r--   1 0        0         184329 Nov 19  1990 DS3100.ps.Z
-r--r--r--   1 0        0         176392 Oct 13  1992 DS5000_200_spec.ps
-r--r--r--   1 0        0          69223 Oct 13  1992 DS5000_200_spec.ps.Z
-r--r--r--   1 0        0          77017 Nov 19  1990 DS5000_200_toc.ps.Z
-r--r--r--   1 0        0           1336 Nov  6  1991 README
-r--r--r--   1 0        0          24758 Nov 19  1990 tc_cfb.ps.Z
-r--r--r--   1 0        0          77051 Nov 19  1990 tc_ether.ps.Z
-r--r--r--   1 0        0          29304 Nov 19  1990 tc_scsi.ps.Z
gatekeeper.dec.com
/pub/DEC/specs

The DS3100 document is highly relevant for NetBSD, I don't know about
the other documents. It seems that similar documentation for the
DS5000/1xx has never published electronically.

- Erik Bertelsen