Hi Tony,
Well, the cutouts were for whatever you wanted to use
them for,
but that's one use that RML put it to.
You're right of course, my brain was operating in "PC" mode....
Tandy used to sell service manuals for every piece of
their computer
equipment....
....and could easily be order at any Tandy shop...
Many of the TRS-80 manuals were available until quite recently I understand.
Sadly (?) the Tandy stores here in Birmingham are all too often little more
than mobile phone/radio controlled car shops these days - don't even think
about asking for a catalogue....
Heck, I even got a calculator from Tandy with a
schematic in the back
of the manual....
What really got me, was that they also printed the schematic on a sticky
label inside the back cover of my radio - needless to say it was so small as
to be unreadable. Full marks for trying though.
Many manufacturers won't supply them at all for a
number of totally
bogus reasons. What it basically comes down to is protecting their
service agents....
Quite. :-(
A friend an I once tried ordering a service manual from JVC for an HRD-725EK
VCR, I ended up digging one up at a rally and my friend ended up getting one
from Ferguson for their version of the machine. We did
manage to get some
mechanical parts out of JVC though - eventually - which arrived
with a
letter telling us in no uncertain terms that they would not deal with us
again and directing us to a service centre!
Nothing like good customer service is there....
TTFN - Pete.
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