And to add something more useful to the thread (@airship, feel free to append to your fantastic initial post), here's the VIC-1520 Users Manual in PDF format:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Z1TQ2V2A

Note: the above PDF differs slightly from the one that's with my 1520s which doesn't have a photo on the front page like this PDF does. If anyone wants to archive these differences/photos, here they are:
Mine looks like this: http://i.ebayimg.com/11/!Bz4!vBw!mk~$(KGrHqN,!gsE)CwPMcV+BM(4QQHrtw~~_1.JPG?set_id=880000500F
Above PDF looks like this: http://commodore-gg.hobby.nl/hkessels/boeken/picture/engels/e-pt-015k.jpg


Now does anyone have the service manual?

If you want a VIC-1520 printer/plotter in its original box, hurry:

http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=2266
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=54373