On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 10:28 PM, Jack J. Woehr <[email protected]> wrote:

> As much thrash as has been
> ​​
> throshen about the IBM Knowledge Center, it's an amazing resource.
>

​"throshen"? as in:
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mec/med-idx?type=id&id=MED45467​ That's a
word I've never run across before. Not many use middle English. (Thanks,
Google)


>
> All those mountains of documentation at the fingertips of those of us
> who'd usually rather read up on IBM business systems than great world
> literature.
>
> I find myself reading the Knowledge Center for hours every day.
>
> People used to have to pay for this stuff. I paid $10 for the 390 POPS
> once!


> Thanks, IBM.


​Especially thanks for not putting it behind a "paywall" or requiring an
IBM authorized userid to access​. I can even read IBM redbooks via Google
books as well as PDF (or EPUB). Would love all the IBM manuals to be EPUB.

I wish CA (and others, but I need CA mostly) made its user manuals
available for "whomsoever wills". It would make finding general information
about a product so much easier. Of course, it would "cut out" the need to
get hold of a CA representative and register yourself for contact by
marketing.



>
>
> --
> Jack J. Woehr     # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of
> www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the
> universe
> www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. -
> Carl Sagan
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