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Hack-a-Day reports:
[Jason Scott of Textfiles.com] found 25,000 manuals for all kinds of electronic items. The collection goes back to the '30s. Jason wants to save them and the current owner of the collection needs the space.
[...] The plan is to arrive Monday morning, along with $900 of bankers boxes [that] an anonymous donor paid for and start putting these manuals into boxes. I am then going to rent a nearby (1 mile away) Storage Unit, using a rented truck from a nearby Truck Rental place (2 miles).
The warehouse is located in Finksburg, MD, about 30 miles northwest of Baltimore.
The more people who I can get to show up to the place during the day or early evening, the better. The more people who throw money at me via paypal (jason at textfiles dot com) so I can pay the $250/month storage unit fee until the end of the year (so this can get an appropriate home), the better.
There are duplicates of some items; Scott will keep only 1 copy of each item, with the rest going into a dumpster.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Sir Finkus on Sunday August 16 2015, @08:56AM
I think the idea is that they aren't going to have enough space/time/money to store all of them, so they're concentrating on making sure they get at least one copy of everything. Based on the pictures I've seen, they have a LOT of stuff.
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(Score: 1) by SomeGuy on Sunday August 16 2015, @10:33AM
I have a hard time imagining how they are going to find space to store even just the one copy of each. Manuals can be big and bulky - sometimes unnecessarily so. When someone cleans house to make space, the old manuals are usually the first to go.
Perhaps these manual will eventually get electronically scanned in and made publicly available. Then the duplicates won't matter so much. It sounds like the kinds of manuals they stocked are not the kinds that appeal to collectors (who often prefer original paper manuals.) So once scanned, the original paper would not be that important.