I agree about reference cards. But I remember when I learned how ~expensive~ it is to print physical manuals.
At this employer we were encouraging end users to learn DYL-280II so they could write their own inquiry programs instead of disrupting the developers' projects. ("Listen, I know you promised me that update in three weeks but I just gotta know how many red cabovers Ford sold in Michigan between 1969 and 1998.") So I was ordering manuals for each new user, and my boss got tired of approving purchase orders for the manuals on a onesy-twosy basis; order a bunch of them, he said, and pass them out and charge them to the user department as needed. How many? Oh, say a hundred. The manuals at the time came in two thick ring binders and went for $150 a set. So I went to the folks at Dylakor and asked for a discount for ordering a bunch of them at a time. Sure, they said, and offered me half off. Wait, you don't understand, I said, we're ordering a HUNDRED! (I was perhaps overly impressed with myself at the time.) So they said Tell you what: We'll issue you a license to print the manuals at your own print shop, and we'll just sell you the binders and tabs. Now you're talking, I thought, and went to our print shop for a price. Then I went back to Dylakor and accepted their $75 offer. Turns out printing hard copy is expensive. Nowadays I can save hundreds of manuals on a single flash stick, and search them for a few key words in minutes. I like this system better. (Though I still miss the HTML search function.) --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do in order to achieve what they want to achieve. -Tom Landry */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Friday, May 6, 2022 13:16 No - IBM stopped being a paper publisher around ten years ago. Obviously they still print some marketing stuff and the like, but to my knowledge nothing with a manual number is available on paper anymore. This makes sense for most pubs, but you'd think there'd still be a small market for things like reference cards, or - something I was looking for a decade ago - APL keyboard stickers, either SC33-0604-00 or GX20-1783-02. --- On Fri, 6 May 2022 at 11:36, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > Jeez Louise, the PofOp is 2,124pp and the "green card" is 118pp! (Yes, > still in green card-sized pages.) I wonder if this is still > purchasable in print format, and if it's coil-bound or perfect-bound > if so. Not that I'm about to buy a copy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN