[sdiy] Engineering/Computer Books Cleanup

[Grant Richter]

> 
> H^)  harry (still mourning the loss of our company library... 40 years
> of useful data... now landfill!)  OTOH its fun to tell the purchasing guys
> "Sorry... I can't help you at all. All the data books are gone so I can't
> identify what made the original engineer specify that part...what unique
> characteristics the circuits rely on. Perhaps I should spend the next month
> re-engineering the product... NO ? OK..so sorry again..."
> 
This is the fault of the engineering manager. In my last day job, one of my
duties was to index the collection of data books going back to the 70s. They
carefully preserved the collection just for the reason of maintaining
"legacy" systems. It is no coincidence that the engineering manager was also
a Radio Amateur