Generally agreed. I was particularly amused that one of the 'formats' of the info being sold is HTML. :-) I did once buy a set of DVDs from the site owner of the Bombjack C64 archive, because it just made more sense to have that material in offline form and it would have taken weeks (literally) to download it all on my internet connection at the time. That was an entirely different scenario, though; it came directly from the site and the money was used to defray the cost of hosting. And as I recall it really didn't cost much more than the cost of blank DVDs.
I'm guessing this eBayer isn't giving us an index since that would make it too easy for a genuinely interested person to just search out the specific material wanted. On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 4:25 PM Brian White <bw.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't remember which seller but a couple times I got a cdrom or dvd of > manuals, once for a specific manual and once for a collection. In both > cases it was the same pdfs already available for free, I just hadn't found > them yet. My suggestion, do not give people like this money. They aren't > even providing the theoretical "value" of finding stuff for you, since you > had to search to find them on ebay, which is no different than searching in > google and finding the same stuff in archive.org or classiccmp.org etc. >
