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Most likely. The open source movement in software was still relatively recently and quite radical. The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past.

PoachedSausage 6y ago
>The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past. If only. In the past it was common to provide schematics of your hardware in order that people could repair it. This was common for consumer products, industrial, instrumentation, test gear, almost everything. For example, the manual for the Amiga 500 had the schematics in it.
- diggan 6y ago
  Also "hardware companies are still stuck way in the past" is only true for some hardware companies. Recently got into music production and lots of hardware comes with schematics of the inner workings with descriptions on how it all works and is connected, together with implementation guides for MIDI and more. Night and day if you compare to how computer hardware gets sold today.
  - zwog 6y ago
    I don't know if this is only with music hardware or with 'professional' hardware in general, but yeah you get a lot of schematics and such. While I was at University I made some money by repairing DJ-hardware. Controllers, CD-Players and Turntables. There things are often expensive, but they are quite easy to repair because there are detailed service manuals available. Not on the official sites, though.
FpUser 6y ago
>"The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past." Example: in the past my friend bought Moog Prodigy synthesizer and along with everything it also came with all the electronic circuitry diagrams. Good luck finding anything like this with the modern hardware.
- diggan 6y ago
  It's the same today I think. Recently bought a Moog Sirin (released in 2019, compared to Prodigy that was released in 1979[?]) that also comes with a circuit diagram. Couple of other synths I own does the same.
spaetzleesser 6y ago
“The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past.” You wish they were stuck in the past. People like Steve Wozniak often designed new stuff only based on the manuals that back then had complete schematics in them. They didn’t have enough money first to buy anything but that information later on resulted in sales.
- kps 6y ago
  And in turn the Apple II manual included schematics and ROM listings.

PoachedSausage 6y ago

>The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past. If only. In the past it was common to provide schematics of your hardware in order that people could repair it. This was common for consumer products, industrial, instrumentation, test gear, almost everything. For example, the manual for the Amiga 500 had the schematics in it.

diggan 6y ago
Also "hardware companies are still stuck way in the past" is only true for some hardware companies. Recently got into music production and lots of hardware comes with schematics of the inner workings with descriptions on how it all works and is connected, together with implementation guides for MIDI and more. Night and day if you compare to how computer hardware gets sold today.
- zwog 6y ago
  I don't know if this is only with music hardware or with 'professional' hardware in general, but yeah you get a lot of schematics and such. While I was at University I made some money by repairing DJ-hardware. Controllers, CD-Players and Turntables. There things are often expensive, but they are quite easy to repair because there are detailed service manuals available. Not on the official sites, though.

FpUser 6y ago

>"The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past." Example: in the past my friend bought Moog Prodigy synthesizer and along with everything it also came with all the electronic circuitry diagrams. Good luck finding anything like this with the modern hardware.

diggan 6y ago
It's the same today I think. Recently bought a Moog Sirin (released in 2019, compared to Prodigy that was released in 1979[?]) that also comes with a circuit diagram. Couple of other synths I own does the same.

spaetzleesser 6y ago

“The hardware companies are still stuck way in the past.” You wish they were stuck in the past. People like Steve Wozniak often designed new stuff only based on the manuals that back then had complete schematics in them. They didn’t have enough money first to buy anything but that information later on resulted in sales.

kps 6y ago
And in turn the Apple II manual included schematics and ROM listings.