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Siemens
Semiconductor Group
Technical Product Information
Edition 1, June 1995
Ordering number: B193-H6905-X-X-7400
Latest version seems to be: Edition 8 from Nov/96 (Still not HTML/PDF based it seems).

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(I have sorted this list for Siemens...)
Seems to be a subset of the other Siemens CD-ROM. ;-)
Uses the same browser etc...
Why not combine the two?
Recently I found a colleague from a neighbouring hi-tech firm in the 'Silicon Valley of Delft' struggling with this CD-ROM:
He had to change some software because of specs that had changed in a new version of a chip (!) (something to do with ISDN...).
Enfin, this person likes the good old solidity of books, but according to the dealer, data books were no longer available, so he has to borrow the work station/PC of a colleague, which has a built in CD-ROM drive (after normal working hours) and 30 meters apart from his working place and two stairs up, to look at the docs. The Siemens viewer turns out to have no search facility within a document (of in this case about 180 pages), so he decides to (try to) print it.
The Siemens browser in it's wisdom seems to collect all printing output (which is a lot, since the documents are in tiff-format) and send it in a batch to the spooler on the server. This server gets completely flooded, because of lack of hard disk space and crashes after spitting out some pages to the printer with completely wrong headers and footers.
My brave little colleague goes on and discovers the DOS-version of the browser on the CD-ROM.
Siemens is an old and respectable firm he considers and must know what it is doing, so let's try that option. "I probably did something wrong in the Windows version."
Well I don't remember exactly, but something else went wrong...
Suppose you have a project with 10 chips from different manufacturers with each such a stubborn kind of CD-ROM? You would have more than a full time job getting your databooks on paper...
Perhaps that is a future form a very skilled labor: Trying to print out the datasheets from CD-ROMs...

Technical Product Information for Siemens Semiconductors

Siemens
Semiconductor Group
Edition 6, June 1995
Ordering number: B193-H6641-X5-X-7400

Latest version:

Siemens Edition 8, November 1996 Technical Product
Information for Siemens Semiconductors
Order # B192-H664-X7-X-7400
(I haven't seen this version yet though.)

Contents of version 6:

Costs officially DM 39, but you'll probably get it for free.
Very non-standard browser.
The data is quite complete, but not perfect and only in pixel format.
There is also a DOS-version included.
It's very difficult to extract ASCII information.
Images are easier, but only with cut and paste.
Printing seems to be possible, but I haven't tested it, because I am a firm believer in the paperless office.
The program crashes sometimes.
Edition 6 is not much different from edition 5, it seems.
Have a look, but don't expect too much.
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