I need to identify someone selling  the Operators Manual for an HP 5995 GC/MS. 

If it is the original Hewlett Packard manual I will pay as much as $250.  If it
is a photocopy then I will pay $200.  It must cover the
operation/maintenance  of the 5995.

Please note that the 5995 has been declared obsolete by
Agilent (successor to HP) . They do not support this instrument.   I
have already tried
the Library of Congress and several universities which I found still
had the instrument.   I have found no one with the manual.     Who is
willing to sell this manual?

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 21 Oct 2005 18:37 PDT

Howdy ligon-ga,

It might help researchers to know if there are other places you have tried.

For instance, there is Alpha Omega Technologies, Inc. which, in addtition
to their advertised "large inventory of parts to keep your older system up
and running ..." might also have an operator's manual.
http://www.alphaomegatech.com/gcms8889.htm

They can be reached at 1-800-842-5742.

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

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Clarification of Question by ligon-ga on 21 Oct 2005 19:57 PDT

Alpha-Omega Technologies has been contacted.  No Luck...

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Clarification of Question by ligon-ga on 22 Oct 2005 03:54 PDT

Further clarification

An advertisment has been placed in LabX inc.   (No Luck)
An advertisment has been placed in "Sci Techniques.Mass Spec"  news line (No Luck)
I  have also contacted "ProLab " ,  the successor to Teknivent  (No Luck)

In addition I have made many other contacts. 

 I suspect that this question will be successfully answered only by
someone near a university that has this instrument and has the manuals
and is willing to share them.

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Clarification of Question by ligon-ga on 25 Oct 2005 10:22 PDT

I have found someone with manuals outside the Google system.

Thanks for the interest.

You can find the manuals at http://www.sisweb.com/portal/

http://www.sisweb.com/portal/      returns the error

"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /portal/ on this server."

If you have a correct http please let me know

Woody