[Amps] No more HP/Agilent manuals on BAMA

[Gary Schafer]

It may actually come down to some of the "manual merchants". Agilent has 
a small list of them on their web site where old HP manuals and copies 
can be purchased. They may have struck a deal with Agilent and are 
pressuring Agilent to get the free stuff of the web?

This same thing went on with Collins radio a few years ago. The Collins 
collector group made a deal with Collins to sell their old manuals. 
Collins sent a letter to Bama and others forbidding them to distribute 
the free manuals. This was apparently at the prompting of the Collins 
collector group.
I believe that some of that has now been relaxed??

73
Gary  K4FMX


Will Matney wrote:
> What HP-Agilent did there is the most prickish behavior I've ever seen! The only reason they could be upset is that they still want to try and sell copies of old manuals! Now if that aint being tight, I dont know what it is. I'll sure tell um one thing, I'll think twice about buying a new HP or Compaq computer, and or any piece of test equipment they've made or will make. That's surely what's known as being low enough to crawl under a snakes belly.
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> I'll tell you what would really dig at um. Have someone to host the manuals where copyright laws dont extend. That goes on now with the server for WinMX I think for downloading music. I think they're home office is on an island somehwere around the Phillipienes, I cant remember where. I do know Sony and a few others tried to shut it down, and flat couldn't. If that government dont accept US copyright law, then the copyright holder is screwed. In HP's case, it would be deserving, IMHO.
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>>Please visit the following site for the Agilent letter.
>>http://bama.sbc.edu/images/Letter%204-18-05.pdf
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