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. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) panic: kernel segmentation violation. core dumped (only kidding)
