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 That one got stuck in the front of the outdated manual, as I just couldn't bring myself to butcher the pages as they required....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