[QuadList] Quad Manuals Scanned/Digitized In A Swap

[Dave Sieg]

Esteemed QuadListers:

Having recently had to pore over Sony manuals in pdf format purchased from
one of the many online purveyors of such,
I can testify that resolution is crucial, and splitting a long fold-out
schematic into two pieces STINKS!
Its hard enough to get your head wrapped around some of this complex
circuitry much less having to mentally
jump from one page (the left side) to the other (the right side of the
page).
I ended up printing them out in miniscule print requiring a magnifying
glass and taping them together, and
it still was a pain!

The benefit of pdfs is the near-zero footprint and the immediacy if you
need to look up something, but for
schematics I hate trying to puzzle something out even on a large screen.
Furthermore, even if you have a pdf scanned at good resolution, its almost
impossible to get it printed out
in the original large-format page.  By default, even on a large drafting
printer the pages want to come out
at no bigger than 11x17, which is about 1/3 to 1/4 some of those precious
schematic original page sizes.
And being able to jot pin numbers, sketch waveforms, and make notes in the
margin of  the page itself saves lots of
time when it matters!

 I'm definitely an E-Book fan when it comes to reading fiction, but when it
comes to fixing a quad (or any other)
machine, give me the big old paper manual and a Tektronix scope to balance
it on!

Just my fiftieth of a $'s worth...

Dave

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Dave Sieg
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