"I'm all for that. I fall into that latter as I've got a bunch of hardware without docs and have found none around so far. Then, I've got some docs but not the iron . . . " I think most folks are in the same situation, and I REALLY hate it when I find out Frank, Eric, or someone else out here has a manual that I just paid out the nose for on eBay. I'd be willing to host this on spies, if folks feel like sending me lists of docs or sw that they have for non-consumer computers (minis, etc. someone else can take care of the micros..) and a contact adr. I'll have to do this by hand for now until I can put some scripts together that would let people add/delete things through a web interface.