Re: HP 5480A, or, obscure HP instruments / was Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-22 Thread Tothwolf
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015, Jay Jaeger wrote: On 8/20/2015 7:11 AM, tony duell wrote: They reuse numbers for what I call marketing numbers. For example, with a LaserJet 8150dn, the 8150 is a marketing number and not the actual HP product number, which was C4267A. As far as I know they've never

Re: HP 5480A, or, obscure HP instruments / was Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-20 Thread William Donzelli
They reuse numbers for what I call marketing numbers. For example, with a LaserJet 8150dn, the 8150 is a marketing number and not the actual HP product number, which was C4267A. As far as I know they've never actually reused a product number. The same occurs with IBM type numbers and

Re: HP 5480A, or, obscure HP instruments / was Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-20 Thread Jay Jaeger
At least, under Google and eBay, one can add exclusionary terms: hp 9100 -printer -scanner Seems to do pretty well under Google. Under eBay I had to add a lot more exclusions, and ran out of room. JRJ On 8/20/2015 7:11 AM, tony duell wrote: They reuse numbers for what I call marketing

HP 5480A, or, obscure HP instruments / was Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-19 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2015-Aug-19, at 3:58 PM, William Donzelli wrote: Yes, let the guys keep selling the higher demand documents - HP, Tek, Heathkit. Nearly all of those are super common anyway . . . In fact, due to your time constraints, I would not bother with the HP, Tek, or Heathkit manuals at all . . .

Re: HP 5480A, or, obscure HP instruments / was Re: More on manuals plus rescue

2015-08-19 Thread William Donzelli
Not to disagree or contradict you, but I have to mention what may be an exception to that in the case of one HP instrument: There are always exceptions. Anyway, http://www.ebay.com/itm/Agilent-HP-Keysight-05480-90013-5480A-5480B-Service-Manual-/361296424349 Is that a different instrument?