On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:42:21 -0400 (EDT) sdb@xxxxxxxxxx (Stuart Brorson) wrote: > Nowadays, I almost never see a schematic -- or any other hard > technical information -- in any published operators manuals, even for > extremely high-tech equipment. (I *do* usually see 20 pages of hazard > warnings in scores of different languages.) I don't think it's a good > thing that we no longer include schematics in manuals. I think it's > part of the ongoing land-grab for so-called IP, a trend which I find > disturbing, and bad for society in general (although perhaps > beneficial for the individual companies who are grabbing the IP). > That is to say, manufacturers are working to close their hardware > designs as much as possible. Perhaps Dr. IBM VC will argue that > publishing info about your hardware's inner workings is a good thing? > But I shouldn't speculate . . . . RANE, the pro audio company gives schematics too. Just to add. They also provide technical notes, calculations, etc... www.rane.com Levente -- http://web.interware.hu/lekovacs
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