It was my impression that many HP (and Tek, PAR and others) Field Offices had full manual sets for everythng they supported. I got a hardware fiche manual for an HP total station from the Boston office.
Best, -John ============== > Charles P. Steinmetz wrote: > >> Approve it? I bet most manufacturers can't even FIND the code for >> equipment designed more than 25 years ago. Note that HP has had to >> rely on the kindness of strangers for copies of its older manuals. > > In the old days, the manuals were typeset by some outside service, > and they maintained the manual. There was nothing maintained at > HP, so when the product was discontinued, the outside service no > longer received orders for manuals, and they threw away their > stuff. The only documentation at HP itself were actual copies of > manuals, that had to be purchased from the outside service. It > was no one's job to save obsolete manuals, even at the division > that wrote them. Some HP libraries collected whatever manuals > were donated and tried to archive them. But there was no guarantee > any particular manual would get donated. And then the libraries > ran low on space and had to purge. Etc. > > Rick Karlquist N6RK > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
