Re: Quaint technical writing

[Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>]

doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com wrote:
> This tool manual PDF contains, in the last paragraph, what I think is 
a very
> good example of the endangered quality of quaintness in tech writing. 
 See
> for yourself:
>
> http://www.harborfreight.com/manuals/0-999/807.pdf
>
> I have to wonder if the environment that produced this is really in 
Pittsburg.
> What do you think?
>
>

What I think is that this was Ned's little April Fool's prank on 
techwr-l. My guess is that the scan is of a manual printed in the 1950s.

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