16 Apr
2020
16 Apr
'20
11:37 p.m.
On Thursday, April 16, 2020 at 23:18, Frank McConnell wrote:
Sometimes I have come across shrink-wrapped manuals
and later updates,
and scanned them as found. I wouldn?t want to deny other people the
opportunity to apply updates to manuals, you know?
Oh yes, especially the ones that would say, "Insert the six paragraphs
below between the third and fourth lines of page 23." :-)
I used to despise HP when they would send updates that consisted of
instructions to modify existing manual pages instead of sending replacement
pages. I recall one update, maybe for the HP 64000 logic station mainframe
service manual, that instructed me to change a dozen or so schematics --
simple things, like "replace feedback resistor R23 with the active filter
circuit shown below." That one got stuck in the front of the outdated
manual, as I just couldn't bring myself to butcher the pages as they
required....
When it came to manual updates, the Logic Systems Division was aptly named.
-- Dave