archive of hardware manuals (was Re: Accelerator //e ?'s)

[mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas)]

BRIAN.HAMMACK@rook.wa.com (brian hammack) wrote:
>Hiya!  Once again posting the question, "what do the dipswitches and
>jumpers on a Titan Technologies `Accelerator IIe`" card do?

Questions like this pop up frequently.  I myself need the manuals for a
few Apple II cards. 

What would people think of having an ftp site (probably one of the existing
Apple II ftp sites) with lots of hardware manuals?  Using a scanner and
OCR software makes converting a manual into text files and GIFs easy.

Legality is an issue but if the manuals are no longer obtainable from the
copyright holder, and if someone looking for a manual owns the relevant
piece of hardware, there's a strong argument for "fair use".  Of course,
Alltech and Sun Remarketing still sell most of the Apple-brand manuals.