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Old Apr 19, 2005 | 11:19 PM
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I have a '69 assembly manual that I bought 23+ years ago...many pages are not readable due to poor copy quality. Has this been addressed in newer issues of the '69 assembly manual..? Is there any quality variation b/n the examples sold by the various vendors Thanks
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Old Apr 19, 2005 | 11:22 PM
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My copy was purchased a few years ago and has pages that are not all that clear. I believe that there are different "original" copies that have been used to make the reproductions from so your bad pages may be different than mine. Do you have a particular page in mind that you need? I would be happy to look at mine and see if the quality is any better.

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Old Apr 20, 2005 | 08:40 AM
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Mine's two years old, very poor quality copy, no index. PITA, frankly. But when they're getting $25 for a crappy photocopy of a book that you pretty much have to have, there's not a whole lot of incentive to make it any better.

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I agree. My '72 AIM purchased 15 years ago suxs also. Hopefully some vendor will step up and do a quality copy.
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