DEC Handbook, What on earth?

From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Tue Jun 22 06:37:56 1999

>I just got a box of doc's today in the mail, and I'm totally fascinated by
>two of them. They're nicely done copies!?!? They have semi-heavy cream
>coloured covers with the actual cover xeroxed onto them, and the pages are
>xeroxes, but the right size. They're bound with the spiral plastic things.
>Does anyone know what the story is with these? Are these copies that DEC
>made, or did a 3rd party go to this much trouble?

If you order out-of-print manuals from DEC (err, Compaq) today, they
run Xeroxes off from originals - there's a special name for the facility
they use to do this, but I can't remember it at the moment. The
resulting document sounds very much like what you're describing.

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