Every once in a while someone on this list will ask about manuals for
some piece of vintage test equipment that they picked up for working on
their vintage computer.
I was looking for a manual for an HP 6284A power supply and found this
ftp drop on agilent's site:
ftp://ftp.agilent.com/pub/manuals
There was no 6284 manual there, but there was one the 1630 logic
analyzer, and of course lots of other HP equipment.
The web page leading to this ftp site has an impossibly long URL, so I
won't try to quote it, but the page does say:
(quote)
Help us share old manuals! If you have an electronic copy of an old HP
or Agilent manual, we'd like to share it with your test colleagues. Send
a brief email letting us know what you have, and we will contact you
about receiving the file. I have a manual to share (manuals at
agilent.com)
(end of quote)
I think it is great that they want to collect the old manuals (too bad
they won't scan them themselves though). If you happen to have any
scanned HP test equipment manuals, why not mail it to them to help build
the archive?
There is also a subdirectory of HP Journals, althoug there are only a
dozen or so issues. I'd imagine they'd post copies of any issues sent
to them as well.
ftp://ftp.agilent.com/pub/manuals/HPJournal