Readme File for BOBZ Documentation Disk -- 14Apr14 rjn

Startup
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This CD documents products sold on the internet or through magazine articles 
by Bob Miller and Bob Nash (BOBZ).  

To use the CD, insert it into your computer's CD ROM drive and select the 
drive using a file browser (e.g., Explorer for Windows).  Use a Web browser 
to execute the "product.html" file.  

This displays the home page for our documentation.  Alternatively, you can
point your web browser to www.kiblerelectronics.com and select the 
"BOBZ Products" option on the right pane of the home page.  This will display
the same documentation that is on our product disk.

Navigation
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Navigation to the documentation for each product can be performed from the index 
page.  You can return to the index page from any documentation file by clicking 
on the "PRODUCT INDEX" link at the top left of each "Contents" page. Clicking on
the "Home" icon returns you to the home page for Kibler Electronics. 

Email Support
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You can request email support by clicking on the "contact" link at the 
bottom of each product page (bob.nash1@gmail.com).

High Resolution Photos and Schematics
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Our new policy is to make high resolution schematics and construction documents
available for download from the Kibler Electronics web site.  These are also
on the documentation disk and can be "downloaded" to your computer, as a zip
file, by clicking on the "download" link in the documentation.  

Alternatively, these high resolution files can be copied and viewed directly
from the documentation disk.  For example, the high resolution files for the
DCON product are in the dcon/dcon_files/high_resolution directory and the 
high resolution files for the ELITE project are contained in the 
elite/elite_files/high_resolution directory.  

As this is our new "standard", some high resolution files for other projects 
may be in other directories or not available for download from the HTML 
documentation or web site.  Please contact us if you cannot find a schematic, 
photo or file that you want.  It is our policy to make all project-related files 
available.

PDF Manuals
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We often make a PDF version of each manual available for download and on our documentation disk.  Our documentation is written in "vanilla" HTML and later translated to PDF format.  

We take care to view each HTML document using the "print preview" function 
of our browser so that pagination makes sense for a printed document.  

This is also why some of our schematics are a bit "rough" -- they are rotated 
and reduced to fit on a page with a label.  The purpose of these processed
schematics is to allow meaningful discussion in the text.  They are not 
intended as working drawings.  

Working drawings should be downloaded or directly printed from the documentation 
disk, as discussed in the previous section.  We are now including a download link 
for the PDF manual and a high resolution schematic in our most recent documentation.

For older documentation, the PDF may be on the disk but not linked to our
HTML document.  In other cases, we have not yet generated a PDF manual.  We
can do this on request, but will deliver it only as an email attachment (not a
revised documentation disk).  Older documents may not have the option to download
a high resolution schematic.  For these, see the documentation disk or request
a copy by email.

Because we are transitioning MyForth to be a "Linux only" system, many source
code (and other) files are available only in "tar.gz" format.  These are easy to 
expand into a source code directory chain, but are more difficult to handle in
Windows.  Other documentation we are trying to keep in Windows-compatible
formats.  If you have a problem extracting or viewing content on this disk,
please contact us.

Revision History
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14Apr14 - Added DSTRO, a project manual for a DDS-based stroboscope
14Oct13 - Added MIDE (myforth Integrated Development Environment) with C2
          Programmer and One-Wire Tether
24Aug13 - Added PROG C2 programmer
27Mar13 - Re-do of FEBO according to new "standard" format, added PDF manual,
          download
25Mar13 - IOTA, MIND and DSYS release, misc. cleanup (e.g., DCON)
07Feb13 - ELITE release, misc. cleanup
01Feb13 - MIND release
27Jan13 - DCON release
30May12 - pictures resized for faster Web display (e.g., 800x600).
17May12 - revised HTML for Web page at www.kiblerelectronics.com
09Feb12 - initial documentation release in HTML format