FC8, lost sound

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Sat Mar 22 12:40:43 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 22:16 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 21 March 2008, Tim wrote:
> >On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 10:23 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> >> However, the 747, 757 and 767 manuals all have preflight inspection
> >> steps including "remove all covering material from the pitot tubes"
> >> and "remove wheel chocks before attempting to taxi".
> >
> >While we're digressing about manuals, I was somewhat amused by something
> >I was told by a colleague, years ago:  The service manuals for one of
> >the broadcast television cameras (I think it was a Marconi) all had CPR
> >instructions in the front, just in case someone working on them got
> >bitten by the electricity.
> >
> >One of my favourite personal discoveries while doing some servicing work
> >at a local studio was finding an aspirin taped inside the chassis of a
> >computer.  It caused some mirth while we debated whether it was supposed
> >to help the crappy PC, or was there to help the next poor sod who had to
> >work on it.  ;-)
> >
> And then there was the manual that came with the Bell TR-7 1/4" audio tape 
> recorder, circa 1956 or so.  It said in rather large type,
> 
> Please try our way first!
> 
> Loved it, never forgot it.

"When all else fails, read the manual"
  -- Hacker folklore from prehistory

poc




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