Word: manually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter what happens, do not look at the manual...
...press the button, we do the rest." That marvelously simple slogan helped sell millions of Eastman Kodak cameras starting in 1888. Today, however, the owner of a new video cassette recorder or some other electronic wonder must turn to an instruction manual to get his machine working. But that is often when the trouble begins: the consumer opens a booklet to find a compilation of jargon, gibberish and just plain confusion. "There is a major disease in this country called wall-stare," says Sanford Rosen, president of Communication Sciences, a Minneapolis consulting firm. "When people read a computer manual, they...
...device refused to work. "O.K., the jaws didn't fire that time," Nelson radioed after his first attempt. Twice more, with increasing force, he banged against Max without results (TPAD has no manual trigger for an astronaut to operate). Nelson's efforts turned the gentle wobble of Solar Max, whose inoperable attitude controls had been shut down as a precaution by its ground controllers, into a precarious, crazy cartwheel. Radioed a frustrated Crippen: "Is there any way that you think you can do it with your hands...
...identify them." Of course they lead you by the hand but having to figure out what to do and how to do it was a real challenge. It meant something to be able to think on my own and not just follow the directions in a lab manual...
Fortunately for Harvard's term bill office, most of the manual work is done by Bay Bank Harvard Trust Co. When students or parents mail in money for the new academic season, the checks go directly to a strongbox at the bank and are credited to Harvard's account...