Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: legg Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: grrrrrr Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 07:54:19 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 41 Message-ID: <5io5vi93r96fk7qf4tn7mhbvm5j3jdbvno@4ax.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="18e04d6cf4763529ebddd21afff7c78b"; logging-data="1680164"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+z6oHSHaqKjKsGe7mSovXT" Cancel-Lock: sha1:26UKmJzP/0Xy7fU9SrwzW+VxJuo= X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 Bytes: 2204 On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:35:54 -0700, john larkin wrote: >Why do people have online data sheet files called media.pdf or >mfr.pdf ? > >Why does TI have app notes and eval board manuals like sluubo1.pdf? > >Why do I have to fill out a form to see a data sheet or an online >magazine? It's easier to not. > >Why are a lot of Digikey's datasheet links broken or useless? > >Why do some data sheets not even name the manufacturer? > > >"The easiest thing in the world is not to sell'" >- Melvin Goldstein > > A lot of mfrs don't want anyone distributing their data sheets for them, hence the links or altered forms. Copyright or rev/doc control issues? Docs for north american market aren't a priority, when 80% of product is designed, made (and repaired?)off-shore. Publications? $ or lack of. I've had EDN and EPD reps on the phone three times in seven days, verifying mailing address, though they haven't delivered a hard copy to any of my addresses in the last 30yrs. Everyone else and their dog got one. Boohoohoo. You figure they'd be able to recognize a return from direct email solicitation and just cough up the article. Could be the browser, but hey . . . . Bodo Power keeps re-publishing stuff with illegible illustrations. You have to ask for a 'good' one. RL