HP Prime

[Hans S.]

(08-31-2017 09:59 AM)lschroeder1947 Wrote:  It is impossible to write a manual for everyone or every situation.

Larry,
In my whole life I never encountered a manual "written for everyone or every situation", and I never heard of somebody trying to do so (I am part of an eternal discussion with my IT-providers about the quality of the documentation and, yes, the user's guides to be (!)- sometimes... - delivered; of course, the everlasting point is, what could be done and what is impossible to be written down or what is even contraproductive - "the system changes so fast we cannot keep pace..."; "should we have to mention that the computer has to be switched on?" - you know these discussions.

Manuals are, and I think that we share the same opinion, special and strange species. They should, at least, in a sense reflect the very heart of their topic. In my humble opinion, the current version of the Prime's user's guide will not do so. The Prime is a higly integrated machine; the user's guide seems to be more or less on the side of disintegration. I learned that the irritations about the user's guide are as old as the Prime itself. I would't excavatate that stuff. The Prime's build-in help is very useful (thak you, folks). So is this forum. Thirty years ago, without fora, you were 100 % dependend on printed documention; maybe times do change faster then we are able to perceive.

Hans

P. S. Starting with my Prime, the first week I was about ten times a day to trow it on the garbage heap (Dizzy Gillespie's one, as mentioned by Sonny Rollins - you might know Dissy's joke about this).

H.