For context:

This is the third post in a series. The author (Jason Scott) is trying to save ~25,000 manuals, instruction booklets, and engineering notes (largely electronics related, created over the last 80 years). This is a large project, the company which owns the manuals currently is going out of business, and all the manuals will be thrown away very soon (re: tomorrow).

First post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4711 Second post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683