More on manuals plus rescue

[ethan at 757.org]

> Gosh, please don't do that! What a terrible piece of advice. A large portion
> of the HP manuals are unavailable, and HP doesn't have them either. I have
> been looking for the operating and service manual for the HP 12050A (HPIB
> fiber optics extension) in vain. Couldn't find the one for the HP 7225B
> (gantry XY Pen Plotter) online, but found a hard copy version on ebay.
> Couldn't find any doc on the personality interface on it. On the computing
> side, many of the interface cards for my HP 1000 are undocumented or missing
> critical documents. Often a user manual is available, but not the service
> one. Sometimes you find the A, but not the B and they are significantly
> different. Etc, etc... And I am not talking obscure instruments at all.

Scan it all. Release it all. Set it free.

(Anyone have the schematics or service manual for Yamaha C1 music 
computer? Yamaha doesn't.)


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Ethan O'Toole