Editing Michigan Terminal System (section)

===End-user documentation===
The manual series ''MTS: The Michigan Terminal System'', was published from 1967 through 1991, in volumes 1 through 23, which were updated and reissued irregularly.<ref name=MTSSubSeriesBentley/> Initial releases of the volumes did not always occur in numeric order and volumes occasionally changed names when they were updated or republished. In general, the higher the number, the more specialized the volume.

The earliest versions of ''MTS Volume I and II'' had a different organization and content from the MTS volumes that followed and included some internal as well as end user documentation. The second edition from December 1967 covered:
*''MTS Volume I'': Introduction; Concepts and facilities; Calling conventions; Batch, Terminal, Tape, and Data Concentrator user's guides; Description of UMMPS and MTS; Files and devices; Command language; User Programs; Subroutine and macro library descriptions; Public or library file descriptions; and Internal specifications: Dynamic loader (UMLOAD), File and Device Management (DSRI prefix and postfix), Device Support Routines (DSRs), and File routines<ref name=MTSVolI-1967>[http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univOfMichigan/mts/Michigan_Terminal_System_Second_Edition_Vol1_Dec67.pdf MTS Volume I], second edition, December 1, 1967, University of Michigan Computing Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 415 p.</ref>
*''MTS Volume II'': Language processor descriptions: F-level assembler; FORTRAN G; IOH/360; PIL; SNOBOL4; UMIST; WATFOR; and 8ASS (PDP-8 assembler)<ref name=MTSVolII-1967/>

The following ''MTS Volumes'' were published by the University of Michigan Computing Center<ref name=MTSVol1/> and are available as PDFs:<ref name=MTSAtDeepBlue>[https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/79570 "Computing Center" collection] within "Archival Collections -- Bentley Library" of the University of Michigan's Deep Blue digital archive</ref><ref name=MTSAtHathiTrust>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=1889583521 UM Computing Center Public Category] in the Hathi Trust Digital Library</ref><ref name=MTSAtBitSavers>[http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univOfMichigan/mts/ MTS PDF Document Archive] at BitSavers.org</ref><ref>[http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/documentation#TOC-MTS-Volumes Manuals and Documentation section] of the MTS Archive Web site ([http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org archive-Michigan-Terminal-System.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111201148/http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/ |date=2011-01-11 }})</ref>

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*MTS Volume 1: ''The Michigan Terminal System'', 1991
*MTS Volume 2: ''Public File Descriptions'', 1990
*MTS Volume 3: ''Subroutine and Macro Descriptions'', 1989
*MTS Volume 4: ''Terminals and Networks in MTS'', 1988 (earlier ''Terminals and Tapes'')
*MTS Volume 5: ''System Services'', 1985
*MTS Volume 6: ''FORTRAN in MTS'', 1988
*MTS Volume 7: ''PL/I in MTS'', 1985
*MTS Volume 8: ''LISP and SLIP in MTS'', 1983
*MTS Volume 9: ''SNOBOL4 in MTS'', 1983
*MTS Volume 10: ''BASIC in MTS'', 1980
*MTS Volume 11: ''Plot Description System'', 1985
*MTS Volume 12: ''PIL/2 in MTS'', 1974
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*MTS Volume 13: ''The Symbolic Debugging System'', 1985 (earlier ''Data Concentrator User's Guide'')
*MTS Volume 14: ''360/370 Assemblers in MTS'', 1986
*MTS Volume 15: ''FORMAT and TEXT360'', 1988
*MTS Volume 16: ''ALGOL W in MTS'', 1980
*MTS Volume 17: ''Integrated Graphics System'', 1984
*MTS Volume 18: ''MTS File Editor'', 1988
*MTS Volume 19: ''Tapes and Floppy Disks'', 1993
*MTS Volume 20: ''PASCAL in MTS'', 1989
*MTS Volume 21: ''MTS Command Extensions and Macros'', 1991
*MTS Volume 22: ''Utilisp in MTS'', 1988
*MTS Volume 23: ''Messaging and Conferencing in MTS'', 1991
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[[File:MTSVol1Cover.png|thumb|MTS Volume 1 cover]]
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*''MTS Reference Summary'', a ~60 page, 3" x 7.5", pocket guide to MTS, Computing Center, University of Michigan
*''The Taxir primer: MTS version'', Brill, Robert C., Computing Center, University of Michigan
*''Fundamental Use of the Michigan Terminal System'', Thomas J. Schriber, 5th Edition (revised), Ulrich's Books, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, 1983, 376 pp.
*''Digital computing, FORTRAN IV, WATFIV, and MTS (with *FTN and *WATFIV)'', Brice Carnahan and James O Wilkes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1968–1979, 1976 538 p.
*''Documentation for MIDAS, Michigan Interactive Data Analysis System'', Statistical Research Laboratory, University of Michigan<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=498865425 MIDAS public category] at the Hathi Trust Digital Library</ref>
*''OSIRIS III MTS Supplement'', Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=2013821674 OSIRIS public category] at the Hathi Trust Digital Library</ref>

Various aspects of MTS at the University of Michigan were documented in a series of ''Computing Center Memos'' (CCMemos)<ref name=MTSAtHathiTrust/><ref name=CCPubsSubSeriesBentley>[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-0351;view=reslist;didno=umich-bhl-0351;subview=standard;focusrgn=C01;cc=bhlead;byte=24453394 Unit Publications series], Computing Center publications, 1965-1999, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan</ref> which were published irregularly from 1967 through 1987, numbered 2 through 924, though not necessarily in chronological order. Numbers 2 through 599 are general memos about various software and hardware; the 600 series are the Consultant's Notes series—short memos for beginning to intermediate users; the 800 series covers issues relating to the Xerox 9700 printer, text processing, and typesetting; and the 900 series covers microcomputers. There was no 700 series. In 1989 this series continued as ''Reference Memos'' with less of a focus on MTS.<ref>[https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=bhlead;idno=umich-bhl-9551;view=reslist;didno=umich-bhl-9551;subview=standard;focusrgn=C01;cc=bhlead;byte=24586272 Unit Publications series], Information Technology Division (University of Michigan) publications, 1971-1999, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan</ref><ref>[http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/79611 ITD Publications], University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 1995, 24 pages</ref>

[[File:ITDDigestCover.jpg|thumb|Cover page of the May 1996 issue of University of Michigan IT Digest, May 1996]]
A long run of newsletters targeted to end-users at the University of Michigan with the titles ''Computing Center News'', ''Computing Center Newsletter'', ''U-M Computing News'', and the ''Information Technology Digest'' were published starting in 1971.<ref name=MTSAtHathiTrust/><ref name=CCPubsSubSeriesBentley/>

There was also introductory material presented in the ''User Guide'', ''MTS User Guide'', and ''Tutorial'' series, including:<ref name=MTSAtHathiTrust/>

*''Getting connected—Introduction to Terminals and Microcomputers''
*''Introduction to the Computing Center''
*''Introduction to Computing Center services''
*''Introduction to Database Management Systems on MTS''
*''Introduction to FORMAT''
*''Introduction to Magnetic Tapes''
*''Introduction to MTS''
*''Introduction to the MTS File Editor''
*''Introduction to Programming and Debugging in MTS''
*''Introduction to Terminals''
*''Introduction to Terminals and Microcomputers''