[Milsurplus] ARC-5 and other Docs

[J. Forster]

You're right. The real problem is deciding what will be useful in the future.
I've been in warehouses full of documents for missile systems like the Patriot
and there are hundreds of shelves full of cardboard boxes of paper. When the
project is over, who is going to go through and decide what tiny fraction is
worth keeping?

If it were up to me. I'd keep all the drawings and information needed to
duplicate the unit, the engineering change history, and the production serial
number logs. Even that would still be a considerable bulk for something as
simple as an ARC-5.

But realistically, who is going to pay for triaging all the documentation. So it
gets stored for a while, then dumped.  Too bad. No one but collectors or
historians really care.

-John



antqradio at juno.com wrote:

> I understand the sentiment of this thread but lets be realistic, no one
> individual has the storage space available for the tons of documents that
> were disposed.  And just putting the documents in boxes in a dry
> environment, does no one any good either.  If the collection is not
> cataloged, it is next to useless.
>