ewk@plnapc.Philips.Com (Ernie Kent) (06/29/90)
In article <1127@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>, grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert) writes: > In article <20539@duke.cs.duke.edu> zielke@romeo.cs.duke.edu (David Zielke c/o hsg) writes: > > > #include <stdflame.ibm-pc> > #ifdef FLAME > > An now for a flame. I am really angry at the way the PC industry is run by > TECHO-MORONS. Gone are the days when you bought a computer and got all the > schematics, programming details, data sheets, etc. I've been a hardware > nut for 12 years, and I wouldn't trade my 2.5 Mhz Z80 for a 486 if my life > depended upon it. > > #endif I couldn't agree more. You see the same thing in all technical areas these days; high fidelity equipment, for example. It's probably true that it's a waste of paper for 99.99% of the customers to include the schematics, and I assume it's a cost-cutting measure. Alas, the average computer purchaser is no longer technically literate; the "old days" really are gone, Greg. However, the stuff has got to be available somehow since it must exist. Somebody has it and could produce it for a price or as a service to his fellow creatures. Is there a net where sources for this sort of thing are posted, or could this be the right place?
jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) (07/01/90)
>> In article <20539@duke.cs.duke.edu> zielke@romeo.cs.duke.edu (David Zielke c/o hsg) writes: >> Gone are the days when you bought a computer and got all the >> schematics, programming details, data sheets, etc. When I bought my Wells American 286 box oh-so-long ago, they included a form you could return for free schematics. I returned it and they never followed through. Now it's dead, and they went out of business just this spring. :-( The owners manual included with all Amigas has schematics of the full computer, pinouts of all the external connectors, etc, etc. -- Jim Wright jwright@quonset.cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.