From: Zane Healy
What I found really odd was that it had part numbers
and manual names
from one version, but when I clicked on the links it said no known
version online.
They try and list all known DEC manuals and print sets that ever existed, so
just because something is listed in the index page (and has a subsidiary page
which is linked from there), doesn't mean there's a known copy online.
If you look in the "Status" column on the index page, it will be blank if no
online copy is known, or "Online" if there is a copy (to which they link,
through the subsidiary page).
I have mixed reactions to it. I use it some, often to see if something is
online at all. (If I buy a manual, I usually check, to see if I need to
scan it, and get it to Al. Have a backlog at the moment, sigh.)
The problem is that there are 'false negatives'; i.e. entries where
they say 'none known online', but which are available. E.g.
KE11-A Field Maintenance Print Set
http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,9358
KE11-B Field Maintenance Print Set
http://manx-docs.org/details.php/1,9361
Both listed as not online, but they are: the KE11-A is on Bitsavers,
and the KE11-B I also just found (IIRC, on one of the collections they
list as indexed).
So I'd use it as a 'first stop', but don't depend on the negatives to
be accurate - do a Web seach if it pans out.
Noel