I am not quite sure I agree with you about every manual costing $$.
My limited memory says at one time GC manuals were free and the SC
manual cost $$.
*WAY* back when (1970's) we wanted to order 300 copies of the new
COBOL Compiler manuals (for our programmers). We were told that each
manual costs X.
We didn't want to spend it so we got IBM to agree that we could make
300 copies and pay the printing cost. IBM agreed.
As far as the GC manuals, my memory says that the first copy was free.
Ed
On Oct 22, 2013, at 12:01 PM, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 10/22/2013 10:44 AM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
Let's also remember that in the "good old days" you paid for every
manual,
so there's no comparison to the ability to access hundreds of
manuals and
have them available for free. This doesn't even count all the SHARE
presentations and numerous other sources of information.
In the good old days IBM had Customer Service Reps and Field
Engineers that
assisted in the Education. The best we can hope for now is Web
presentations.
Excellent points, Gerhard. Some things are better, some are worse.
Kind regards,
-Steve Comstock, Founder
The Trainer's Friend, Inc.
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