Have they talked with archive.org? These people have all kinds of scanners and are putting some amazing things online. Dave
> -----Original Message----- > From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf > Of Gregory Muir > Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 09:01 > To: time-nuts@febo.com > Subject: [time-nuts] Manuals heading for the dumpster > > To all, > > Am not sure if any news of this has been posted in prior > times or not but will pass it along just in case. > > Manuals Plus (http://www.manualsplus.com/) will be closing > its doors the middle of June. The proliferation of available > PDF documents available plus the increasing number of other > sellers on eBay has reduced their business to a point where > they cannot afford to remain alive. As a result, they are > going to close up shop. > > No one has stepped in to assume the manual stock that they > currently have so it has been decided that when things cease, > all of their stock that hasn't sold will hit a large roll-on > dumpster and head either for the dump or a recycler. > > They are entertaining offers for manuals at this point. > Becky, the main contact at MP is the one to talk to, She is > very amiable to making deals on manuals. I have been > stocking my files with some very unobtainable legacy manuals > for great prices far below the ones asked on eBay or from > other dealers. > > It's a shame to see such a resource disappear. But it is > even worse to see thousands of legacy manuals get destroyed > in the process. MP has been one of my main sources for many > rare manuals from many equipment manufacturers over the years. > > It is realized that the majority of their manual stock > pertains to test equipment but there may be that one odd > thing you are looking for that they have. One comment is > that their search engine is somewhat primitive. I produces > results from manufacturer names or equipment model numbers > only. Try several variations of model numbers (such as > removing suffixes, etc) to see if other manuals will appear. > > Greg > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.