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Re: Free software

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On 07/19/2017 05:44 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
>
> This is another aspect of "closed source" gratis technology that is
> often swept under the rug.
>
> It used to be, for instance, that a TV in the US had a full diagram
> of working parts in the back case, so that the TV could still be
> fixed even if the manufacturer suddenly wiped their books and
> disappeared.
>
>
Not at all true! As a sideline I was a TV serviceman in the 1960s.
There usually was  a drawing of the tube numbers and positions
somewhere in the set--more usually on an inside surface of the
wooden box. There certainly was no schematic diagram.
However, it was almost always possible to obtain real service
information including schematic diagrams of the circuits from
a paid service, the name of which escapes me now. (The pages
always included useless ones for record players and such that
nobody ever heard of!)

--doug--almost 80!

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video driver? "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2017-07-17 22:20 +0200
  Re: video driver? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-17 22:40 +0200
  Re: video driver? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-07-17 22:50 +0200
  Re: video driver? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-07-17 23:10 +0200
    Re: video driver? Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-07-18 05:40 +0200
      Re: video driver? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2017-07-18 07:50 +0200
        Re: video driver? RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-07-18 13:00 +0200
          Re: video driver? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2017-07-18 14:20 +0200
            Re: video driver? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-07-18 15:50 +0200
          Re: video driver? Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-07-18 20:30 +0200
            Free software (was: video driver?) Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2017-07-18 21:00 +0200
              Re: Free software Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-07-19 02:20 +0200
                Re: Free software Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2017-07-19 02:50 +0200
                Re: Free software Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-07-19 03:30 +0200
                Re: Free software Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-07-19 02:50 +0200
                Re: Free software Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-07-19 03:40 +0200
                Re: Free software rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-07-19 14:10 +0200
                Re: Free software Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-07-20 00:10 +0200
                Re: Free software Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-07-19 06:00 +0200
                Re: Free software Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-07-19 06:40 +0200
                Re: Free software <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-07-19 10:40 +0200
                Re: Free software Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-19 10:50 +0200
                Re: Free software Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-07-20 00:50 +0200
                Re: Free software Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-07-20 01:10 +0200
                Re: Free software Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-07-20 02:00 +0200
                Re: Free software Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-07-20 03:30 +0200
                Re: Free software rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-07-20 13:40 +0200
                Re: Free software Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-07-20 15:00 +0200
                Re: Free software David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-07-20 22:50 +0200
                Re: Free software Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-07-20 20:50 +0200
                Re: Free software Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com> - 2017-07-21 02:30 +0200
                Re: Free software Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-07-20 00:20 +0200
                Re: Free software Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-07-20 03:10 +0200
                Re: Free software Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-07-22 04:00 +0200
                Re: Free software Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-07-22 05:50 +0200
                Re: Free software Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2017-07-22 07:10 +0200
                Re: Free software rhkramer@gmail.com - 2017-07-22 13:30 +0200
                Re: Free software Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-07-22 14:50 +0200
                Re: Free software Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-07-22 17:00 +0200
                Re: Free software Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2017-07-20 13:40 +0200
            Re: video driver? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2017-07-18 21:20 +0200
            Re: video driver? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-07-18 21:30 +0200
              Re: video driver? Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-07-18 22:10 +0200
                Re: video driver? "tomas@tuxteam.de" <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-07-18 22:30 +0200
                Re: video driver? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-07-19 02:20 +0200
              Re: video driver? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-07-19 02:00 +0200
            Re: video driver? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-07-18 21:40 +0200

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