Old Zeiss documentation at Zeiss.com

[iPeace]

Hi all,
Zeiss.com has some old documentation, but doesn't really provide a way of finding it. For example, the manual for the Photomicroscope II can be found at:
https://www.zeiss.com/content/dam/Micro ... oscope.pdf

though I only found the link by a web search.

Altering the URL to try to see a list of documents at this server fails:
https://www.zeiss.com/content/dam/Micro ... right.html
https://www.zeiss.com/content/dam/Micro ... pright.php
ftp://www.zeiss.com/content/dam/Microsc ... ce/upright

I've tried similar at other points along the URL, like .../download.html etc.

If I do a Google search for "end-of-service site:zeiss.com/content/dam/Microscopy/us/download/pdf"
I get a list of 57 documents. I don't know if that is complete, but it seems like a small number.

Any other ideas?

[Hobbyst46]

If I do a Google search for "end-of-service site:zeiss.com/content/dam/Microscopy/us/download/pdf"
I get a list of 57 documents. I don't know if that is complete, but it seems like a small number.

Any other ideas?

My Google search for the same key sentence only showed 42 separate items, not arranged as list. That is definitely a very small sample of the documents Zeiss ever published (regarding microscope brochures and manuals).
A few years ago, searching the Zeiss archives provided a much longer list (I think, nearly 100) of downloadable publications. Retried it right now. It is all gone from the Zeiss site or barely hidden within. Impossible to find.
Moreover, it seems that downloading any old document from that site is not free anymore.

Shame on Zeiss. Compare that with the wonderfully comprehensive downloadable information about Olympus microscopes, owing to Alan Wood and our forum member Carl Hunsinger.

[iPeace]

As I understand it, Google, as with other web search tools, dowloads a page, finds the URLs therein, follows those URLs and repeats to the en∂ - a web crawler. So for Google to have found the documents it did, it must have found a link somewhere, at some time. If there is currently a page with links to old documents, I've not found it. If Zeiss has removed the links to their old docs, then yes, shame on them. It costs next to nothing to have a web page with a simple list pointing to files on their server. Their reasoning for completely abandoning old products might be something like "providing this does not generate revenue", which may be true, but the lack of it does put more burden on their support staff who have to field questions for unsupported products, and pushes (potential) customers to other compainies.

[MichaelG.]

In principle … this should be the place to look : https://www.zeiss.com/corporate/en/abou ... hives.html

But I’ve never found anything I was looking for !

MichaelG.