Michael Black wrote:

On Tue, 20 Oct 2015, Michael A. Terrell wrote:


N_Cook wrote:

On 20/10/2015 12:52, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Archive.org took the remaining manuals when Manualsplus.com
stopped selling obscure manuals. They took about 25,000 manuals
that will be scanned, and put online for free. I haven't seen a
timetable, or if there iss even a completed inventory of what
they have, but I would check their site from time to time to see
if they have it.

They have added a lot of old semiconductor data books. If you are
going to download a lot of them, use bit torrent or other software
to reduce the loading on their servers. There is also an area with
a lot of old electronics and computer magazines you can read online,
or download.

https://archive.org/details/electronicsmanuals?&sort=-downloads&page=6


Are you aware of a widget/app to cross-compare an index of paper manuals
against the main www resources, to determine what needs scanning in and
uploading somewhere , so I can safely dump the paper-based repeats ?


There are currently too many separate archives of manuals, so hang on to
the paper manuals for now. It may take another decade for the volunteers
to scan and process all of those manuals. If you don't want, or need
them, put them on Ebay. Collectors like original manuals to go along
with equipment that is to go into a museum.

BTW, Archive.com has a collection of the old GE Ham News publications:
https://archive.org/details/GEHamNewsVol18No1

Also, issues of 73 magazine:
https://archive.org/details/73-magazine

Apparently Wayne Green said sometime before he died "Take it", which is
why it's there. I thought in the past issues of who owned the copyright
on the articles came up, but "73" seemed to buy all the rights. I had a
few short articles in there and in Kilobaud, filler, and one time about
1990, I came upon a book from Tab collecting computer articles from both
magazines at a used book sale. And there was one of those fillers, they
had the right, but that was the first I knew about it.

They also have Kilobaud, probably on the same deal, and a number of other
computer magazines. Not sure how those got there other than "I have no
interest". Some of the computer-specific magazines would have little
value except for the relative few who are still using and collecting them.
It is worth checking. Actually, there was a Motorola book about PLLs from
the early seventies that I'd always wanted, and recently it came to mind,
so did a search, and it showed up at bitsavers.

Byte can be found elsewhere, though I'm surprised McGraw-Hill isn't
fussing over that.


Is Byte still being published? Those early copies aren't costing them
enough to make it worth suing a non profit, anyway. The bad publicity
for scanning 40 year old magazines isn't worth calling their lawyers
about.

Bitsaves is also on http://www.archive.org