[time-nuts] manuals, anyone?

J. Forster jfor at quikus.com
Thu Aug 4 01:36:00 UTC 2011


I'd much rather see a commercial venture holding this stuff.

IMO, university libraries really do not give a damn about what working
engineers really need. It's all for professors and there is very little to
do with actual hardware other than some journals like RSI.

I virtually never found anything useful to me in the MIT libraries. The
closest thing they had to hardware was a collection of Sam's Photofacts (?
sp) for very obsolete radios.

This collection is for a working lab, not a college library.

YMMV,

-John

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> If only the Google digitization project would take these on...
> http://books.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=43741 as it has
> with
> the local school's
> libraries: http://www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project/michigan-digitization-project-complete-list-resources
>
>
> Bob LaJeunesse
>
>> Hi all--
>>
>> Long story short, a department at a university needs to get rid of a
>> bunch (5-6 file cabinets worth) of 80's vintage user and service
>> manuals for Tek (mostly) and HP equipment.  Oscilloscopes, generators,
>> etc.  70s/80s/90s vintage?
>>
>> The guy in charge (not me) of this is really trying to do the right
>> thing and see if the university digital collections can scan them or
>> something like that.  No idea where that's going to go...but...
>>
>> Modulo any copyright issues, are there any boatanchor-type manuals
>> needed by anyone and aren't available for download from the usual
>> suspects -- Agilent, BAMA, etc?  I know there are some vintage HP
>> manuals I've downloaded which are great -- but could use some better
>> resolution on a few key schematics...they're on *my* list...
>>
>> Requests for the original hardcopy will also be noted.
>>
>> If so, please take a moment and reply to me off-list and I'll make a
>> note of what's in demand.  I haven't posted anywhere else, but may
>> post on some other ham/microwave/vhf-type lists later.
>>
>> I can't promise anything.  But I'll see what can happen.
>>
>> best--
>> --Tim WO9U
>> tczerwonka at gmail dot com
>>
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