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