24 Jan
2008
24 Jan
'08
7:42 p.m.
The worst one for that was one time I tried to get a
manual for something=
(I=20
can't remember now just what it was) that H-P was selling. I ordered _a=20
service manual_, and what I got was some very thin stack of papers, o f =
the=20
sourt you'd put into one of those half-size binders that got popular when=
the=20
peecee came out, which included such useful information as "xxxx is not=20
considered a repairable item, but is swapped out as a unit". Really? =20
They'll do that even when it's out of warranty? And in such a way as I c=
an=20
still make a buck on it? (I was trying to run a hardware-repair business=
at=20
the time...)
The HP desktop calculator manuals are like that. I don't know of _one_
that cotnains any schematics of the logic sections. If you're lucky
there'll be scheamtics for the power supply, but that's it. Sometimes all
you get is the mains transformer wiring or something else like that which
I could figure out in 10 seconds.
These are the manuals that I normally call 'boardswapper guides' I read
them if they're avaialble free (and many are on the web now), but I
certainly wouldn't p[ay for them. INHO a service manual (for an
electronic device) should _at least_ contain a complete scheamtic
diagram.
Of course for many of the HP desktops. I've produced my own repair
manuals now...
-tony