Hi Stuart, Thanks for taking the time to reply. I guessed this would be the situation. I do not have access to the needed equipment or experience in OCR/scanning to make a good job of this, even if I had a copy. Way back in the early eighties when Agilent was Hewlett-Packard, I used this kit for training, and well remember the manual. Annoyingly, I think we must have thrown our copy away during an office move many years ago. Ah well, I'll keep checking e-Bay. Cheers, and thanks again for your efforts. Simon Coleby. -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Johnson [mailto:ssj152 at centurytel.net] Sent: 06 August 2008 18:50 To: cctech at classiccmp.org; COLEBY,SIMON (A-England,ex2) Subject: HP 5036A microprocessor lab - searching for copy of "Practical Microprocessors" Simon, Sorry, I have only the one copy. I have seen other copies sold on eBay, but have not been willing to pay the $100 USD or more that they have sold for. It is really a shame that no one has been able or willing to have one scanned, but that would take a LOT of work - the manual is over an inch thick. Without proper OCR it would be a PDF of pictures, which load very slowly and would make the scan huge. I've seen quite a few manuals done this way and they aren't nearly as usable as the OCR'd variety. I thought about scanning mine back in 2003, and even bought a flat-bed scanner w/OCR software, but it wasn't up to the job at that time. Better equipment and software would have been necessary, along with cutting away the spine of the manual. Today there are better and more affordable solutions, but I am not up to doing it as my health has forced me to retire. I'm not willing to sell my manual in case anyone is wondering, sorry. This looks like an opportunity for someone with the manual, proper equipment, and time - anyone? Simon, do you have the required setup to do this without damaging the book? Regards Stuart Johnson --- On Aug 6, 2008, at 9:38 AM, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote: