Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!dkletter From: dkletter@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple // manuals Message-ID: <8812150943.AA11942@M11-111-1.MIT.EDU> Date: 15 Dec 88 09:43:06 GMT References: <8812120637.AA19270@crash.cts.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 Jason Lindquist writes: > Randy- I see your point, but if you take that into consideration, then > shouldn't Apple make it a little easier (in many areas, including the wallet) > to get a hold of this information. Maybe a note in the regular manuals about > how to get copies of the tech manuals? Someone as knowledgeable as yourself should know that Apple distributes it's technical information through APDA, the Apple Programmer's and Developer's Assocation. If you've been reading the net at all lately, you'll have read that Apple is currently in the process of taking over part of that organization, to distribute its own technical information. This has made it very easy in the past for non-developers located even in the most remote parts of the USA and Canada to receive all available technical information. As for your wallet, your small complaint about the expensive price of manuals is greatly overshadowed by many, many more people complaining about the high price of Apple's CPUs. If you want to include all this tech information with the products, you're boosting the CPU's price even further. This would reduce Apple's market...indeed, people who buy computers today aren't like the customers of the 1970's...most Apple users don't care about technical information anymore...this is a GOOD thing for the industry...don't blame Apple Computer. David Kletter