I found an old "Activision Powerhits" original BattleTech trilogy CD (It's the two Crescent Hawks games, and the first MechWarrior) while cleaning, but I can't find the fairly thick booklet that I know went with it. I don't need it for any gameplay rules or anything, it's just that the piracy protection in the first couple of games involved a "written test" where the player, a pilot-in-training, had to correctly identify a part of a shown 'Mech. I can't find the manuals on ReplacementDocs, or on Sarna.net. Unless of course the aforementioned websites don't have as broad-ranging search engines as I would like, and I'm not using the very specific search terms required to pull up the pages in the results. Google just gives me a multitude of walkthroughs, and a couple of guides on how to hex-hack the game to give you ulimited money (or at least lots and lots of it).

http://www.classicgaming.cc/pc/battletech/downloads/btech_manual.txt ?

http://www.abandonia.com/files/extras/27102_Manual.pdf?

really. google. 2 seconds.

Don't be an asshole. If you'd taken the necessary time to read the OP, I said I already searched through Google. And since you know so much about it, you also know that it has a predictive results display, in which it tracks previous searches to give you a list of "preferred" results in future searches. I hadn't searched for a lot of game manuals in the past, so it didn't show me a lot of manuals in the results.