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What Ever Happened to Well Documented User Manuals

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Coordonnée_chromatique:

--- Quote from: Tomorokoshi on September 29, 2023, 12:49:16 pm ---1. The product cycle is too fast. Development time is compressed, and the next product cycle has already started by the time the previous one is finishing up.
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The documentation is dead since it had been poped out of the modern companies projects processes because the manuals have to be written after the projects endings, and the staff is dissolved or on another project when the documentation had to be written.
A good notice is written by the ENTIRE STAFF that had worked on a product, and a redactor is just here to collect and organize the data.

SiliconWizard:
When you look at the quality of old HP manuals, the current situation is very depressing.
Heck, it was not just for expensive gear. Yes, even cheap home computers of the 80's (at least many of them) came with fantastic manuals.

Smokey:
I bought a welder from Everlast.  I got it direct, not through amazon or some reseller.  It's been a great welder.  I want to make a point I'm not complaining about the welder itself...

but...

In the box was a terrible quality laser printed paper manual... It was hard to read both because of the obviously translated nature and because the printer needed more toner. 
And best of all... it was for the wrong model welder.

Coordonnée_chromatique:

--- Quote from: Smokey on September 30, 2023, 09:46:47 pm --- obviously translated nature
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Here you can read my BS level in English, few decades ago i was able to write technical documentations that were audited by extrenal cabinets of linguists and cerified by pharmaceutical big companies.
My competence is lost since i've been putted in concurence with people that d'ont speak or read english, and use google translations... only the bests survive  :-DD

schmitt trigger:
Back in the late 1970s I serviced professional audio equipment. The most complex were of course multi-track tape recorders. These were magnificent examples of electronic AND mechanical design.
I remember a particular 8-track AMPEX machine. The detail level in the manual was beyond extraordinary. It required not only multiple electrical adjustments, but mechanical ones too.

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