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Re: Still Looking for HP IIID "User's Manual"

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From: Michael
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 00:00
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Sorry, but I missed your first post - why do you need a manual?  In the
digital age, you can find almost everything that you could need by either
asking your peers in newsgroups, or by searching HP's support website.


"Dennis" <sojourn&again@rcn.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks to all who responded to my previous post on the same subject.
>
> However, still no IIID "User's Manual" except, possibly, via
> Printerworks.com where they're asking a ridiculus price of over $50
> (delivered) for something that shouldn't cost a penny over $20
> considering that excellent IIID printers can be purchased for no more
> than $200 to begin with and are as common as house flies. I want the
> manual, but I'm not going to pull the gold from my teeth to get it as
> Printerworks.com would have me do. "A fool and his money...".
>
> I suspect the printers are sold/traded etc. while the manuals are
> forgotton and left on the bookshelf. Who doesn't have orphaned
> miscellany documentation collecting dust?
>
> I've been offered a Xerox[ed] photocopy of the manual, but refused it
> for ethical reasons. HP has been very good - no, *exceptional* to me
> over the many years in both products and support, so I figure I owe them
> not to help somebody trespass their copywrited work, even as much as I
> desire to have that information.
>
> At the risk of repeating myself from a previous post, should anyone have
> one of these spiral-bound manuals lying around the house or office that
> they'd care to part with, please email me ASAP with your desired (and
> hopefully reasonable) price.
>
> Please keep in mind the caveat stated below in the sig text.
>
> TIA,
>
> Dennis
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From: "Michael" <m_cmptr@writeme.com>
Subject: Re: Still Looking for HP IIID "User's Manual"
Date: 2000/01/21
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