Nina KalininaFolks, I think I am finally ready to Program on my Computer
Tom Stepleton@nina_kali_nina From the look... is this an IBM manual, mid '70s? It reminds me of the manual series for the 5100-series machines. The main thing leading me to doubt is the exclamation point.
@stepleton this one is SHARP from the 80s; the "service manual" part of it even has a bit of Japanese (by mistake?)
malcolm@nina_kali_nina @stepleton that's weirdly competent English for a Japanese electronics company in the 80s, they were still very much in the "work out who has the best English on the team and have them translate"
@malcolm @stepleton they were selling it worldwide, probably hired the locals for English and French translations?
@nina_kali_nina @stepleton Yeah that was unusual at the time even for stuff that wasn't even sold in Japan. I once built the UI for a product that was going to be UK only and the (Japanese) customer "fixed" my English
@nina_kali_nina @stepleton back in the 80s my grandfather worked on translating a bunch of technical manuals into Farsi for Japanese companies and they provided them in "English" - he had to rely on my dad, an electronic engineer, to decipher what they meant to write
@nina_kali_nina @stepleton more recently partnered with a Japanese company on a product they only sold in the US (but all the engineers were in Japan) and I asked if they had any Japanese documentation (as I had to translate it back into Japanese for reasons) and apparently they ran the whole team in English (but IDK about the team make-up)