RE: Funny Tech Writing

[kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com]

> http://www.timex.com/instructions/Helix.pdf
> 
> It's the strangest little operator's guide I've ever seen. I just bought
> the watch and got the hard copy of the manual.


That's a great manual - educational AND enjoyable! 

But what REALLY surprises me is that it's from Timex. I recently bought a
Timex watch that had HORRIBLE documentation, nothing like this. Instead,
it was a single large slip of paper, folded like Origami to fit in the
box, offering marvelous tips like this:


1. Setting the date: 
First turn the watch on, then.....

2. Setting the time:

3. Turning the watch on:

This is not an exaggeration - many steps referred to other steps found
later in the doc, which needed to be done *before* the steps I was
currently working on. It was a mess.

Maybe they got some complaints, and started improving their doc. Or maybe
it's just for a Helix watch, which mine was not. Either way, I'd much
rather read the kind of doc you linked us to.


Keith Cronin
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