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   "Jim Wilkins"  writes:   
      
   > "Jim Wilkins"  wrote in message news:10mnke2$2ful0$1@dont-email.me...   
   >   
   >>..learned it mostly by studying the data sheets for   
   > new devices, which went beyond what anyone had learned in school."   
   >   
   > Here is an example that I studied when asked to design a controller   
   > for the new small hard drives in the early 80's.   
   > https://deramp.com/downloads/floppy_drives/FD1771%20Floppy%20Controller.pdf   
      
   This is the manual-read which saved someone's life   
   https://twindisc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/MG-MGX-Operators   
   manual-1016313_RevL_0818_CD.pdf   
   Labelled Pages 3-5 to 3-8.   
      
   Not on your level of sophistication, but the "stripped" diagram was what   
   conveyed what the things do and how they work.   
      
   A few days later a boatperson got caught in the bight / loops of their   
   own rope on a nearly 30m work-boat...   
   I knew the fingers of one hand had more digits than there were seconds   
   for whatever needed to be done to have been done...   
      
   Having seen that diagram, I knew the answer in that moment - get along,   
   hail the skipper and get the boat to power astern into the current until   
   the boatperson could climb out of their own rope.   
      
   Manuals can be the raw information source which provides "the penny   
   drops" moment.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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