That?s as sicking as the scum that destroy old books and sell the pictures or maps. I forget what my VAX maintenance library cost, but I?m pretty sure it was under $200. IIRC, you got the PDP-11 one. Have you ever gotten anywhere on scanning the fiche you have? Unfortunately my getting access to a fiche scanner didn?t pan out. Zane

On 11/02/18 07:01, Paul Anderson via cctalk wrote: I'm a little surprised to see the displeasure expressed at people selling off bits of fiche (not that I'm planning to do that to mine). Is it really that bad? Breaking up a system or pulling apart keyboards I can see is a "bad thing" as in both cases the end result removes one vintage computer from the ecosystem or, in the case of keyboard pillaging, makes it that much harder to put together a vintage system that could have used that keyboard. But selling off bits of fiche doesn't seem to do the same harm, as far as I can tell. I have a fiche set that came from an FS engineer. I don't know if it is complete but I don't even know what "complete" means since the updates come with instructions on exactly which fiche sets to replace *and discard*. In my set, some of those updates had never been processed, and so I have the original fiche and the replacement fiche, and in other cases the update was done and he'd got as far as cutting through the old fiche but they were still in the fiche reader case. As I say, I'm keeping mine, but I have no real need for most of the fiche, only those bits that refer to equipment I have or manuals I may want to read. (Actually the second category is one reason for me to keep everything: I'm really lousy at predictions, especially those involving the future ...). But if I were to sell of the surplus or duplicates or even fiche I decide I'm not interested in, how is that worse than me selling off a manual I don't think I'll need? Just curious. Antonio -- Antonio Carlini arcarlini at iee.org