Telonic 4053 sweep generator

Archive.org took the remaining manuals when Manualsplus.com stopped selling obscure manuals. They took about 25,000 manuals that will be scanned, and put online for free. I haven't seen a timetable, or if there iss even a completed inventory of what they have, but I would check their site from time to time to see if they have it.

They have added a lot of old semiconductor data books. If you are going to download a lot of them, use bit torrent or other software to reduce the loading on their servers. There is also an area with a lot of old electronics and computer magazines you can read online, or download.

Are you aware of a widget/app to cross-compare an index of paper manuals against the main www resources, to determine what needs scanning in and uploading somewhere , so I can safely dump the paper-based repeats ?

There are currently too many separate archives of manuals, so hang on to the paper manuals for now. It may take another decade for the volunteers to scan and process all of those manuals. If you don't want, or need them, put them on Ebay. Collectors like original manuals to go along with equipment that is to go into a museum.

BTW, Archive.com has a collection of the old GE Ham News publications:

Also, issues of 73 magazine:

Apparently Wayne Green said sometime before he died "Take it", which is why it's there. I thought in the past issues of who owned the copyright on the articles came up, but "73" seemed to buy all the rights. I had a few short articles in there and in Kilobaud, filler, and one time about

1990, I came upon a book from Tab collecting computer articles from both magazines at a used book sale. And there was one of those fillers, they had the right, but that was the first I knew about it.

They also have Kilobaud, probably on the same deal, and a number of other computer magazines. Not sure how those got there other than "I have no interest". Some of the computer-specific magazines would have little value except for the relative few who are still using and collecting them. It is worth checking. Actually, there was a Motorola book about PLLs from the early seventies that I'd always wanted, and recently it came to mind, so did a search, and it showed up at bitsavers.

Byte can be found elsewhere, though I'm surprised McGraw-Hill isn't fussing over that.

Michael

If only there was indexes constructed of all the main repositries, rather than search boxes, that would be a great help. Another factor is scanned-in incomplete manuals, not mentioned on the site. I downloaded one of elektrotanya last week that was a revision manual and only one small part of the schematic

Is Byte still being published? Those early copies aren't costing them enough to make it worth suing a non profit, anyway. The bad publicity for scanning 40 year old magazines isn't worth calling their lawyers about.

Bitsaves is also on

I never thought very much about that elektrotanya website. Very low grade scans, and often at such a low DPI that they are hard or impossible to read. Was it listed as a revision? That should have told you that it would be a waste of time, without the full manual.

Archive.org has a staff of volunteers to scan the material properly. They work with both public and private libraries, as well as companies who want to put their old documents into the public domain. I see that they have added the M.I.T. library, but I didn't check to see if the RadLab series of books are included. They cover early electronics, as the field developed during W.W.II.. They were classified, an controlled documents for a long time.

I wonder if there is a UK document-scanning feed into the archive.org? The British Library never bothered with data manuals, Science Museum/Wroughton library has some but not much. My local university library literally dumped all their electronic data manuals from the 1960s/70s in a skip for landfill , without prior checking if they were available online anywhere.

I see a link to a library in Sweden.

My eyes are really bothering this morning, so I can't wade through all of their information, right now. I have been up over 27 hours, and I am waiting on a package delivery before I can go to bed.

has links to their FAQ, and information on how to contact them.