On 12/10/2013 11:34 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

I once heard Tony Hoare say that in the early days the computer was the
size of a room and the documentation would fit in your pocket, but now
it's the other way round. And that was a good 30 years ago.

Except that all of the paper documentation you have is a few pages that tell you how to turn it on and set it up.  The rest is either on-disk or on-line where you can't get to it when you need it the most.