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Old 1st Oct 2020, 12:40 pm   #9
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Default Re: HP 8901B can someone hold my hand !

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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler View Post

Only up to about the nineties.
Some corporate seagull (they fly far overhead out of reach, make a lot of noise and shower us with.....) decided the HP Journal gave too much help to competitors and the confidence it gave to customers was not worth it. So it got axed.

Around the same time manuals stopped going to component level and became flowcharts for board-level swappers.

An era ended.
Presumably this was after Bill & Dave had retired from their most excellent adventure and 'professional' managers were brought in. Sadly all other T&M companies followed suit in terms of documentation.
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