[Boatanchors] AA4DF

[Michael D. Harmon]

I'm sorry to hear that Dave is a Silent Key.  His passing is a real loss 
to the techie community.

Has anyone heard if someone has taken over the assets of his manual 
business?   Dave had made so many high-quality manual copies and other 
documentation available over the years, and it would be a real shame if 
all that stuff is allowed to just fall into the bit-bucket.  There 
aren't that many people out there who are making good quality 
documentation available.  A lot of what you find is poor-quality 
multi-generation copies of low resolution scans.  Dave didn't just 
produce manuals, but he also published quite a few technical bulletins, 
application notes and other reference materials which have to be in 
limited circulation (read that - made of unobtainium).  I believe it was 
Dave who even made available component cross-references of HP and 
Tektronix house numbers to industry part numbers.

The main reason I started this quest was to obtain a copy of a CD that 
Dave sold a number of years ago called the EIMAC  Amateur Service 
Newsletter CD.  From information I found online during a Google search 
for 'EIMAC', there was mention of this disk which contained a lot of the 
EIMAC Application Bulletins, as well as a lot of other useful EIMAC 
documentation.  I have a very limited collection of EIMAC data, but I 
would have loved to have gotten my hands on a copy of this CD.  
Unfortunately, that may never happen. Sad.

If anyone has any more info about Dave's manual inventory, please share it.

Thanks!
Mike Harmon, WB0LDJ
mharmon at att dot net