> pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com wrote:
>
>Agreed. Absolutely. Whenever I find old kit,
>I look around and ask around
>for any and all manuals, documents, whatever.
A useful rule of thumb, that I've learned
through hard experience, is that "X" and
"docs for X" (and "software for X" and "pretty
much anything else you might like if you had X")
almost never arrive at the same time. Usually
"X" turns up just after you've not bothered to pick
up one of the other items in the list.
>As for the suggestion someone made that you can get documentation
from the
>web, well, that's sometimes true, but often the information is
incomplete,
>or in an unsuitable format, or disappears after a while.
The web is a cache - it's only there to hang on
to stuff while you burn it to CD :-)
Now there's an L2 cache to help out
at
http://www.archive.org/index.html.
>I can't count
>the number of times I've been grateful that I downloaded a copy of
some
>document onto one of my own hard drives, because the original
online
>version has gone. Besides, a printed copy is often much more
useful,
>especially for circuit diagrams and large manuals.
Printed copies are great. Always assuming that
(a) you can get them and (b) you have the
room to store them!
Antonio
Received on Tue Feb 05 2002 - 19:10:32 GMT