I read in sci.electronics.design that Winfield Hill
-edu wrote (in
) about 'Copyright on HP service manuals',
on Mon, 25 Apr 2005:
We're
talking about the real shortage of manuals for old instruments,
where more manuals than instruments have been thrown away or lost.

If HP/Agilent still have these manuals but withhold all access to them,
then I think a good lawyer would find ample grounds for dissuading them
from that practice. It might be difficult to challenge them if they
offered them for USD200 each, but perhaps not impossible.
--
Regards, John Woodgate, OOO - Own Opinions Only.
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