Guys - We ended this thread yesterday. Several times. Please no more posts on this topic. Its been covered in exquisite detail :-)
73, Eric WA6HHQ Elecraft Lisa Moderator - Really! --- www.elecraft.com On 8/21/2011 3:56 AM, John Ragle wrote: > An excellent suggestion! Many manufacturers already do this, e.g. my > Samsung Galaxy Tab comes with a bare piece of "getting started" paper, > but on-line there is an excellent 144 page (3.2 MB) "users' manual." > > I have owned or now own several pieces of Elecraft hardware, and in no > case have I ever refered to the printed manual (either "Assembly" or > "Users''"). To me the production of pretty-printed paper manuals is > twice a nuisance: (1) it is a waste of paper and manufacturers' process > time, and (2) it is an aggravation for me because of the storage problem > -- I have manuals of practically every description, size and color, and > they just take up shelf space. > > Storing a manual as a PDF file is a very efficient use of space. My > "manuals" folder contains 280 files in 51 sub-folders, and takes up only > 226 MB of disk space. Storage is dirt-cheap these days; I chuckle over > my first, 5MB, hard drive that was three times the size of my K3, and > the "disk packs" I carried around to stick in the "washing machines" > that used them. > > Moreover, once one frees oneself from the rather squinty corporate > attitude of Adobe embodied in "Adobe Acrobat" and uses "after-market" > PDF editors (some of which are free), one has a quite natural way of > incorporating the small "erratum/errata" changes that usually accompany > hardware evolution. > > Take note, Elecraft, and join the wave of the twentieth century! > > John Ragle -- W1ZI > > ===== > > On 8/21/2011 4:14 AM, Alastair Couper wrote: >> I would like to suggest that the good folks at Elecraft consider making >> paper manuals an optional item at check out time. > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
