Sad News - greendyk.nl Website Closing Down

[DavidM]

Did the owner say why it was being shut down?

It appears that the Internet Archive (aka Wayback Machine) is blocked from crawling the pages, so there's apparently no current backup there.

You're right -- that collection is very obviously a labor of love. It represents a lot of work to have transcribed not only the text but also the graphics of those manuals. Even some of the graphical elements have embedded text in them (instead of graphical representations of the text). I can only guess at the amount of work someone put into those reconstructions (my guess: an extraordinary amount).

Obviously there are technical options to capture the data behind the pages, but I wonder if the author won't (or perhaps can't legally) support that being done. Either way, it does seem a shame to lose these gems.