Esteemed QuadListers:<div><br></div><div>Having recently had to pore over Sony manuals in pdf format purchased from one of the many online purveyors of such,<div>I can testify that resolution is crucial, and splitting a long fold-out schematic into two pieces STINKS!</div>
<div>Its hard enough to get your head wrapped around some of this complex circuitry much less having to mentally</div><div>jump from one page (the left side) to the other (the right side of the page).</div><div>I ended up printing them out in miniscule print requiring a magnifying glass and taping them together, and</div>
<div>it still was a pain!</div><div><br></div><div>The benefit of pdfs is the near-zero footprint and the immediacy if you need to look up something, but for</div><div>schematics I hate trying to puzzle something out even on a large screen.</div>
<div>Furthermore, even if you have a pdf scanned at good resolution, its almost impossible to get it printed out</div><div>in the original large-format page. By default, even on a large drafting printer the pages want to come out</div>
<div>at no bigger than 11x17, which is about 1/3 to 1/4 some of those precious schematic original page sizes.</div><div>And being able to jot pin numbers, sketch waveforms, and make notes in the margin of the page itself saves lots of</div>
<div>time when it matters! </div><div><br></div><div> I'm definitely an E-Book fan when it comes to reading fiction, but when it comes to fixing a quad (or any other) </div><div>machine, give me the big old paper manual and a Tektronix scope to balance it on!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just my fiftieth of a $'s worth...</div><div><br>Dave<br><br>-- <br>Dave Sieg<br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/davesieg" target="_blank">www.linkedin.com/in/davesieg</a><br><a href="http://www.davesieg.com" target="_blank">www.davesieg.com</a><br>
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