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1. niconiconi (niconiconi@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 17:52:04 EDT niconiconi

   The service manuals of old professional equipment are truly amazing, the schematics are shown in three different abstraction levels, every single connection is shown, waveforms at 100 different test points are drawn, every single component is listed, with step-by-step test and calibration guidelines. You can almost remove everything from the board and put it back together with a service manual.

   Something that today's consumers can only dream of...

   #retrocomputing #crt

   1. mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:06:32 EDT mangeurdenuage

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      That's the magic of old documentation. Even teaching guides were more down to earth and precise than what we have today.
   2. mmu_man (mmuman@m.g3l.org)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 18:16:20 EDT mmu_man

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      @niconiconi yeah that's a huge regression, sadly…

      https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/mmu_man/2008-11-03_say_what_you_want_from_us_but_not_what_we_dont_want_to_hear_or_how_much_did_we_regress/

   3. They call me Rick 😎 (rick777@cybre.space)'s status on Sunday, 21-Jul-2019 21:19:35 EDT They call me Rick 😎

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      @niconiconi Ever read a Commodore 64 user's guide?

      It teaches you EVERYTHING.

      E V E R Y T H I N G !

      https://commodore.ca/manuals/c64_users_guide/c64-users_guide.htm

      They don't make 'em like they used to!