All downloads available here are derived from things I own. Some are original content created by me, other content was acquired by me years ago. I am not aware of any copyright issues, so please contact me if there is a problem.


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A Multimedia File System

Several years ago I designed a high efficiency file system for an embedded multimedia platform.
That design was published in the March 2003 issue of Embedded Systems Programming and is available here.

In 2008 I created a robust implementation of this design for a customer. I retain all rights to this implementation. contact me to discuss purchasing a copy.


The Lotus, Intel, Microsoft (LIM) Memory Spec

The March 1987 Microsoft Systems Journal overview of the Lotus, Intel, Microsoft (LIM) specification that extended PC memory beyond 640K.

Free: Download this historically interesting 12 page 2.7 MB document.



Gilbert Chemistry Set Manual

This download has the first 20 pages of a Gilbert Chemistry Set manual from about 1965. It is a "sample" of the set of 3x5 cards that came with one of my childhood chemistry sets.

This manual was "mature" when I got it more than 40 years ago. The content is probably more than 50 years old (but of course the fundamental properties of nature haven't changed for even longer than that). I can find no copyright on this manual and the company that produced it (A.C. Gilbert) is long gone. It SHOULD be public domain but copyrights are funny things - after all, Disney still (somehow) holds the legal rights to the 1937 "Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs" movie.

All the scanning and photoshopping is a little tedious. It will take me several hours to do the entire manual so I don't want to do it if somebody is going to complain about copyright infringement.

... Anyway, I'm putting this sample up for a few months to see if anybody has a problem. If nobody complains I'll post the entire manual - but I'll probably charge a small amount to compensate me for all the work of scanning the hundreds of pages. This sample has the spacing pages and dividers exactly as the original. I plan to do the same with the following scans.

Free (for now): Download the first twenty pages of this vintage Gilbert Chemistry Set Manual (4.7 MB).