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Re: time for this old guy to retire/new electronic
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Posted by Mark - IN. on October 04, 2005 at 17:45:16 from (205.188.117.6):
In Reply to: Re: time for this old guy to retire/new electronic posted by Waljohn on October 04, 2005 at 16:07:40:
That goes for manuals too. Once had to change out an old rectifier (made from the 70's through the 80's and still widely used), and needed to balance the bank of rectifiers to compensate. No manuals, they were gone. They were like gold. Had gone through several soft and hardware upgrades, but power equipment stayed the same, so generations of manuals were kept for that reason - GOLD. Went to the boss whom has never done the job, and has no clue what it takes to do the job and asked, "Can only find CD Rom which doesn't show 30 year old power equipment, need either the black or silver manuals, where are they?", and he says "They were taking up space so threw them away". DOH!!! Have since scrounged and hid some. Mark
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