Frank that's as heart breaking as the burning of the library at Alexandria

The net definitely is a double edged sword. I can find stuff and people there is no way I would have been in contact with otherwise. But there is a ton of misinformation too. You compound that with corp's taking over other corp's then deep sixing their products and if not, certainly their parts catalogs and numbering systems. There is also just a lot of stuff that was never on the net and never will be.

It's staggering the loss of information when you consider most of what was in your books and catalogs is at best going to be hard to find again and at worst gone forever. And relying on grey matter that keeps getting greyer everyday is dubious

But this kind of archiving of experience is what I hope places like HMT can be a part of as often it takes something like this thread to give you a starting point. Often that's the hardest part for when I do a search. And the configuration of the net and my browser are constantly changing. There have been searches I've done over and over, not coming up with anything. Then one day I take a run at it again and bingo!

Thanks for the tip on RustBlast, I'll have to get me some.