7 May
1998
7 May
'98
2:56 p.m.
On the other hand, since DEC, HP and Tektronix have all
helped me with
parts/docs for totally ancient machines, I am recomending those companies
to others.
Exactly. This machine's a Compaq. Now, at the time, I solemnly thought
that they were the best PC's available. Now, since then, I've had problems
with the videocard, BIOS, busses, etc. When I contact their tech support,
in general, they'll give me any solution that costs money, or charge me
money for their time.
Be careful here.
Ditto.
Some companies believe that they _are_ responsible for
the information,
and any use to which it may be put. On several occasions I have been
refused a service manual because 'If you try to repair it and make a
mistake you could be killed' No amount of telling them that it's even
more dangerous to do the repair without the service manual worked.
OK. So we'll need to say something like "No longer NEED be responsible for
information." They need to share it, not give it.
It appears that there are too many lawyers who are
there to put the blame
on somebody else when the customer makes a mistakes. I am not happy about
this, but....
Some companies will release 'safe' information (software sources, CPU
board schematics', but not 'dangerous' information (schematics of
monitors and PSUs, for example).
I see. We'll need a disclaimer: "Anyinformation you recieve here could
ultimately be harardous to your heatlh. DO NOT OPERATE HEAVY MACHINERY
WHILE READING A TECHNICAL DOCUMENT." (Last sentence lighthearted.)
If we do convince companies to release information,
we'd need to have
some proper legal document which removed any responsibility from the
company. You use this info and hurt yourself - it's your fault.
Yep. Does
anyone know how the GPL was made????
2) Central
orginazation. Something like GNU, but less proffesional. It
would contain all archives collected, as well as user-made enhancements,
notes or other docs. (For example: Getting a ST 251 to work under
You'd need to make it very clear which notes were 'official' and which
were 3rd party.