> Actually, their collection was unique and contained a lot of material which > others' libraries (either dead tree or digital) do not contain. This year, I > purchased many one of a kind manuals from Manuals Plus for equipment ranging > from the 1940s to 1980s that I've had sitting around for 10-15+ years. No > one else had those manuals, period.
Except for a really tiny percentage of unique (or really scarce) manuals, all these hoards contain mostly the same stuff. HP, Tek, and the military printed huge quantities of manuals - far beyond the number of actual pieces of equipment. Last year, when I cleaned out the Radio Research library (roughly 18 pallets and gaylords) worth, I certainly found some very scarce docs for test equipment, but by far most of it was the same old same old. -- Will
