[time-nuts] manuals, anyone?

Pete Lancashire pete at petelancashire.com
Thu Aug 4 03:54:46 UTC 2011


i was thinking send them all to Dave let him scan the ones he has not scanned.

Sure better then them ending up in a paper-recycle dropbox

-pete

On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:37 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
> Or returns them to the owner, as appropriate.
>
> -John
>
> ================
>
>
>> I'll 3rd DAVE is the way to go. And when he is done, he sells them at
>> a very reasonable price.
>>
>> -pete Both supplier and customer
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 6:12 PM, paul swed <paulswedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have to agree with John. Dave is reasonable and does a really
>>> excellent
>>> job.
>>> Well worth his price and he has gotten me out of a jam many times.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 8:56 PM, J. Forster <jfor at quikus.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> PLEASE contact Dave at ArtekMedia (dot) com. He is the best resource I
>>>> know for manuals.
>>>>
>>>> I'm far less impressed with "university" resources for such things.
>>>> IMO,
>>>> the stuff jusr vanishes.
>>>>
>>>> Dave's business is scanning manuals so everybody can have them for very
>>>> reasonable prices.
>>>>
>>>> YMMV,
>>>>
>>>> -John
>>>>
>>>> ====================
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > 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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