Parking heads on Honeywell DPS6

No it isn't!. I know for a fact that Dave (the chap who makes the disks) has e-mailed out the odd small schematic to people. What he won't do (and I think this is entirely reasonable) is mail out either a schematic of say 100 pages, or the entire disk. If you want that much stuff, you can darn well buy the CD-ROM. I have also sent out photocopies of small schematics to people who can't use a CD-ROM. Again, I am not doing this for free for any of the larger ones, or the complete disk (IIRC there are getting on for 1000 pages on the disk now). And I've given permission for the diagrams to be hosted on certain web sites. What do you expect me to do? A special job for you where I send you copies of the entire collection on paper? An analogy : Most IC manufacturers will send you one or two data sheets free of charge. If you want the contents of an entire data book, they expect you to buy it (and I think that is 100% reasonable). Oh, in case you're wondering, this hss nothing to do with me not getting any payment if I don't sell a CD-ROM. I don't get paid anyway. I make _nothing_ from the sales of these disks, all the profits go to HPCC. Would you kindly flame the correct person then. As you well know, I don't have a scanner, I don't have a PC with a graphical display. I know very little about graphics file formats. All I do is draw out the schemaitcs. You will be the loser, not me. Personally, I feel any information is better than none, but that's up to you. You may not like the file format (and FWIW, I don't think it's a sensible choice to put it mildly), but the diagrams are readable (which is more than I can say for some other scanned manuals I've seen on the web). You basically can choose between : Having no information on the hardware of these machines at all (the official HP service manuals, when they exist at all, do not contain full schematics in most cases) ; Putting up with my diagrams and/or Dave's file format ; Getting the machine yourself, taking it apart, and producing your own schematics. In the last case, be warned that the diagrams for the 9845B + monitor total over 200 pages, and took me some 6 months to produce. Another analogy : I much prefer printed manuals to electronic versions, in fact I have no easy way to display the latter. If I need a particular manual, I have several choices : I can see if some company will sell me an original or copy (and then see if I think the price is worth paying) I can see if it's available on the web, if so, I can go to an internet cafe and view it there, maybe make notes by hand I could, I suppose, if I really needed it, buy a PC and printer, pay for broadband, and view/print it at home I can see if a friend of mine would be prepared to print a few pages if I agreed to pay for the toner + paper What I do not do is expect the people who run bitsavers, hpmuseum.net, etc to send me a printed version free of charge. Nor do I flame them for providing the manuals in a form that I can't easily use.I regard them as being a very useful resource (which I do use quite often, actually). -tony