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cisin@xenosoft.com
11 Jun 2006 11 Jun '06
1:11 a.m.
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> Mind sharing that manual? :o) I like your line of tought, but imagine a
On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Tony Duell wrote:
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A little hard with no scanenr :-).
Which is why we keep trying to give you one! Howzbout: We send you one of our scanners to "check out" for us. (BUT, only until we get our manual for it :-) You could use it, test it, try it out, run it now and then (to keep the mechanism from freezing up:-) and then we'll get it back from you, just as soon as scanners start including manuals.
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service manual for a simple thing like a mouse ;o)
quicker just to trace out the scheamtic than to do battle trying to get a schemaitc from the manufactuer. I know I included schematics of the appropriate mice when I traced out diagrams for the PERQ AGW3300 and the HP IPC>
I thought that maybe I could get away with that logic to get you to accept a scanner :-) BTW, one important spec for mice would be the diameter of the ball, that lUsers keep losing.
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And I still fail to see how supplying information means I'll do a worse repair. Darn it, I am going to have a go at fixing this <foo> no matter what. If I can get a service manual I'll read it first, if not, I'll have to work it out as I go along...
I think that his argument (which I don't agree with), was that possession of information would give people a false sense of confidence to attempt tasks for which they weere not qualified. Is that so? Or does that speak badly for the quality of the information? -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
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