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I've added three new people to the stories page, specifically, Ron Crandall, Ray Smith, and Mike Tuccinardi.

If you enjoy reading them, please write up your own (text, .doc, .rtf, .odf, etc) and I'll HTML-ify it.

I added a bunch of UP-TIME user newsletters, courtesy of ex-BTI Customer Software Support engineer Ray Smith. Uptime was written by a BTI customer to facility communication with other BTI customers. Ray also contributed an article he wrote demonstrating how to make low level XREQ calls from Pascal.

Added a few more entries to the people page.

Two former BTI employees, Dave Milton and Ron Crandall, have provided a number of interesting design documents and source code listings for the BTI-8000 computer. Tom Poulter gave Ron Crandall permission to share the source code listings. Thanks to one and all!

All the files are located on the documents page.

I've added scans of some advertisements to the documents page. I've also added a few more names from field service to the people page.

I've created a place where former BTI employees and users can share their stories. If you have something to share, please send it to me.

Thanks to Ron Crandall, the people page has many more entries. Most of these have very little information other than the person's name, so if you can supply any updated information, please do.

Updated some entries on the people page, and added a guestbook so people can share stories and recollections.

Web site goes online.

Web site started

For a few years I have been trying to online resources for information on the company BTI Computer Systems, and the BTI 8000 computer in particular. Very little has been available. Numerous blind emails to people who might have been connected to BTI has turned up a few tidbits, but not much substantial.

This website was started to put together the bits I had, in the hopes that it might draw the attention of someone who did have old brochures, manuals, or OS backup tapes in the bottom of a closet somewhere.