Hello all,
This may be somewhat off topic, but it certainly is a serious request.
A little history first.
About a year ago, I got a call from a company close where I live and asked
me if I was interested in some old DEC documentation. I collected about
an office cupboard full of usefull and less usefull material.
Since July this year I work for them, and they now know me and what my
hobby is (PDP-11's). I just got a call from the head of the repair dept
(they repair a lot of weird things, including old DEC stuff).
Basically he told me that management is considering to get rid of most of
the older technical documentation archive.
I have seen this archive, and it is about 100 meters of documentation,
not only DEC stuff, but also some Sun Microsystems, HP and Dell material.
Some of the manuals are available in several revisions, some not.
All in all about 40 office cupboards in total.......
One of the options is just to get rid of it, but another option is more
favoured, which is to find a company or someone willing to scan it in.
There is a budget, and one very likely possibility is to make the scanned
material available for everyone except maybe those documents which are
still considered valuable by the respective owner of this docu.
So, now I'm looking for leads to individuals or organisation who have
the capacity to scan this amount of material in and convert it into
PDF formatted documents.
If you have any lead or info, please contact me off-list.
Thanks,
Ed