No More HP Manuals on BAMA

I've worked quite a bit with HP's media staff and also HP Archives in the past few years, both for my work and my collecting interests. I can attest that they're keenly aware of the importance of their history -- and that was during the Carly era. Things will only get better. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Jay West Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 9:46 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: No More HP Manuals on BAMA It was written... Last time I checked, HP didn't change their name to anything. Agilent was a spinoff from HP. HP is still alive and kicking. Agilent stuff is pretty good from what I've seen. Perhaps you're mistakenly referring to the cheap desktop stuff HP is making in the consumer products division? Regardless... I can definitely see a company protecting their copyright. We as collectors should be first and foremost in honoring those copyrights, or it will be to our detriment. Of course, then we move to working with them to ease up on old gear... but, we should rigorously maintain their copyrights as well. That being said, I'm hard pressed to imagine them complaining about really old manuals for gear they haven't made in decades. But that's a moot point - have to work inside the guidelines of the law. Jay