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"RST Engineering" wrote:

So for 35 years now we've been putting out our kits with two printed manuals
per kit ... a
"operations and maintenance" and a "construction and assembly" manual. Each
of which costs us about $2 a manual. Not a big deal.

I've got a wild hair that we can put out a digital CDROM set of manuals that
will give COLOR pictures, video "how to", and a lot of other stuff on the
CDROM.

The other person in the company says that you all want print manuals.

Please vote:

1. I want a print (paper) set of manuals with my kit.

2. I want a CDROM with my kit that I can print out myself.

3. I want you to increase the cost of the kit by $5 and include both print
and CDROM with every kit.

Please, no other permutations. Print or CDROM. No other choices.

Jim

I vote for #1, printed manual. I call that "appropriate technology for
the situation." Running back and forth from my computer to my workshop
(construction) or from my computer to my airplane (operations) would be
a PIA of gargantuan proportions. Maybe when notebook computers are the
size of a thin magazine and cost $35, CD would be acceptable. Until
then, NFW. I tell you what, I'll give you an extra $5 to promise never
to put out a CD manual.