Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Dave wrote:
I remember about 20 to 25 years ago, we bought a video recorder and it
took me 2 weeks of going through various sections of the manual to
extract all the information to set it to record a prog.

If you remember those old Mel Smith ads, people want 'functions'. They
probably will never use most of them - but by being there need a handbook
as confusing as The Bible. If only they also gave you an idiot's guide
written by someone in their native language who wasn't technical.


Very well put Dave :-)

Dave