Before this gets out of hand ...

I have a copy of these docs. (I wouldn't part with them if I didn't) I
can't sell copies for obvious reasons and Ebay was a bit concerned about
DEC "proprietary" information as well, however I explained that a) these
were for products that are no longer sold or supported, whomever forgot to
shred them when they threw out their BI bus based VAXen is probably
actionable by DEC, if DEC existed in more than just spirit, and copyright
law covers them.

Second, I'm changing jobs and the cost of maintaining my collection has
suddenly become something of a burden. I've got two choices, make it
somebody elses burden or try to sell 'extras' from my collection that might
bring in some revenue to support storing this stuff until I have room
again. I've been doing the latter. I also have some spares in California
that I'm willing to give to someone who will use them, or trade for the
things that are more germane to the central collection.

As everyone on this list should know, I'm very much in favor of keeping
VAXen and NetBSD on VAXen alive. I have never attempted, nor will I, to
make a "living" on these wonderful old machines, however I also won't let
them bankrupt me. I'm guessing the docs are pretty specific anyway in this
case and will be suprised if they go for more than $15. But it is Ebay is
it not?

So if you've read this far, next up on my list of 'spares' to consider
putting on Ebay is a case (10 tapes) of brand new TK70 media (CompacTape
II). $40 + postage to anyone if they want them.

--Chuck

Brian Chase wrote:

> I don't mind bidding on it, but I'd rather have just bought it outright
> even at some inflated price to preserve this for "the cause."  A lot of
> the big VAXen use the BI bus, and as AFAIK, nobody has a copy of these
> docs which would be very helpful.
>
> -brian.
>
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Gunther Schadow wrote:
>
> > Chuck,
> >
> > I see you're selling BI documentation on ebay. It's good that
> > your house of VAX is being financially supported, but please
> > do not forget to preserve copies of this information! It will
> > be invaluable to provide BI support for NetBSD. I'm not sure
> > I have the funds to buy this, because I have to spend my budged
> > in parts right now.
> >
> > Frankly I think we should keep a library of all such documents.
> > I think this can be done without copyright violation if we
> > keep this semi-private, i.e. only a few friends can share
> > and we keep the copies on a password protected web site.
> >
> > AFAIK there is no law saying that you have to destroy your
> > personal reproductions of a book you owned as soon as you sell
> > that book second hand.
> >
> > What do you think? If we all work together we will have all
> > needed information collected in no time. If I can find the
> > machine, we have an automatic scanner that produces PDF files
> > from a batch of paper with no effort.
> >
> > thanks,
> > -Gunther