Sams PhotoFacts

Maybe you all know about PhotoFacts but this was new to me. I was spending some time at the library yesterday and noticed a huge wall of (moslty black) binders labelled PhotoFact. I guess they've been there all along but I'd never really looked. They are schematics and service info for electronic products. Mostly radios and TV's it looks like. I got the index from the reference desk and looked up the oldest electronic device I have, an Emerson portable tube radio model 558. Sure enough the schematic and some service information was there. I believe it's from 1947. At the other end of the binders the newest thing I found was from 2006. I wondered if there were any computer manuals in there. I think there are, I found one for a Compaq portable and some Gateway system, there are also some Zenith data systems items. The binders make it hard to get the pages flat on the copier, but it looks like the pages could be removed and replaced. Anyway $0.60 for copying the four pages was a lot cheaper than the twenty bucks some internet guy wants for that manual, and that one's a copy too. When I have more time, I'll go back and look further. Regards, Jim