[time-nuts] Re>>: Agilent rep looking for manuals

[Bill Powell]

>I'm still hoping that one of these days I'll be able to pull together 
>a bunch of my friends and get them organized!  If that ever happens, 
>and they haven't been ruined, I may be able to scan and supply some 
>of them.  (any volunteers?)

What city do you live in Daun?

Regards,
Bill Powell   af4jg
Cary, NC

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: [time-nuts] Re: Agilent rep looking for manuals
Date: 	Wed, 8 Jun 2005 22:33:28 -0400
From: 	Daun Yeagley <daun at yeagley.net>
Reply-To: 	daun at yeagley.net, Discussion of precise time and frequency 
measurement <time-nuts at febo.com>
To: 	Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement 
<time-nuts at febo.com>



I remember in the late 90's when HP/Agilent's call center was just getting up
and running, that they were looking for a lot of the older manuals.
And the reason for that is that I distinctly remember in the early 90's there
was an edict that came down from corporate that we didn't need all those
complete sets of manuals in all the sales offices any more, and to get rid of
them.
Needless to say, this really made me cringe, being the pack rat that I am.  Our
local office manager told me that they were going in the dumpster in the next
few days, but if I wanted them I had to get them out immediately.  So one of my
friends and I frantically threw as many manuals as we could in our cars and made
several trips to my place where we put them in my pole barn.  The bad news is
that in the haste to get them out, any semblance of organization was lost!  Of
course there has never been enough time to try to tackle that huge task of
sorting them, and I fear that, although I still have them, spending over 10
years in an uncontrolled environment didn't do them any good. I'm still hoping
that one of these days I'll be able to pull together a bunch of my friends and
get them organized!  If that ever happens, and they haven't been ruined, I may
be able to scan and supply some of them.  (any volunteers?)

Daun

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
Behalf Of John Miles
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 10:18 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement;
dcunningham at agilent.com
Subject: RE: [time-nuts] Re: Agilent rep looking for manuals


I thought it was interesting that several items on the list were among HP's
most popular instruments ever, like the 8640B.  It's hard to believe that
they don't have that one in their magazine rack in the lobby. :)

-- john KE5FX

> -----Original Message-----
> From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
> Behalf Of Jeffrey Pawlan
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:06 PM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement;
> dcunningham at agilent.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] Re: Agilent rep looking for manuals
>
>
> As usual, one hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing.  Agilent had
> virtually every single hardcopy manual ever made in its Tech
> Support library in
> Colorado, at least when I spoke to them two years ago.