Matthew T. Russotto wrote:
> In article <fhq5o1$cat$4$8300dec7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Simon Slavin <slavins.delete.these.four.words@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>> On Nov 15, 11:34 am, russo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Matthew T.
>>> Russotto) wrote:
>>>
>>>> To be even more anal, the Phone Book was not the original. The
>>>> original was in two looseleaf binders (updated occasionally by
>>>> mailings from Apple), and had the author's names as well as other
>>>> interesting info. I still have a copy. Some of the stuff in it was
>>>> removed from the phone book edition, and later appeared in the
>>>> Macintosh Family Hardware Reference.
>> The thing with the binders was that there was no consistency. What you
>> got in the binders depended on just when your copy was sent out. And
not
>> only was stuff added, but stuff was taken out again when someone felt
it
>> was unclear or misleading. Just like a few of the TechNotes
disappeared
>> later on. You remember TechNotes ? Man, they were fun. "Don't Abuse
The
>> Managers.". Wonderful. I see its official name is now 'Managerial
Abuse'.
>
> I only know of two disappearing tech notes. One was Tech Note 31,
probably
> the most well-known technote of them all by now (Moof!). I think the
> other one was numbered 299, and I have a copy somewhere, but I don't
> remember the subject matter.
>
There were some Tech Notes on the do***ent formats for MacWrite,
MacPaint, MacDraw, etc, which got pulled, I think. TN 11, 12, 13, 27, 86.
Paul
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