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Dulmont Magnum Programmers Manual & Kookaburra Brochure - ChickenMan - 11-03-2021
Thanks to the Queensland Uni "scanned" book collection for providing these documents. All cleaned up and now searchable PDF's.
The Dulmont Magnum Programmers Manual is an extensive manual of 128 pages long and is divided into the following sections:
* DEVICE DRIVERS
* I/O CONTROL CALLS
* BIOS CALLS
* APPENDICES
The Device Drivers section contains :
Driver Summary
Uart Drivers
Clock Driver
Liquid Crystal Display Driver
Keyboard Driver
Parallel Port Driver
Video Driver
Rom Driver
Ram Driver
Power Down Driving
I/O Controll Calls sections contains :
Clock
Keyboard
LCD
Video
BIOS Calls section contains :
Aux
Clock
Floppy Disk
Keyboard
LCD
RAM
ROM-RAM
Video
Operating System
Printer
With the Appendices containing :
A - Clock Definitions
B - Floppy Disk Definitions
C - Video/LCD Definitions
D - Uart Definitions
E - Keyboard Definitions
F - ANSI Control Sequences
G - Lear Siegler Control Sequences
H - Programming Function Keys
The Dulmont Magnum company was eventually taken over by TIME. Office Computers Pty. Ltd., Sydney and in their wisdom decided to re-name the computer to the Kookaburra. This is a 6 page brochure produced by TIME Office and the Kookaburra was being sold early 1988 for $2146.
So in the Vintage repository in the Dulmont_Magnum folder we placed
dulmont_magnum_programmers_manual.pdf
kookaburra_brochure.pdf