The phrase "a computer manual" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a guide or instructional book that provides information on how to use a computer or its software.
Example: "Before starting the installation, make sure to read a computer manual to understand the setup process."
Alternatives: "a user guide" or "an instruction booklet".
"I can read Joseph Conrad but not a computer manual.
"I've definitely become more courageous over the years," said Ann Kilhoffer-Reichert, 41, a marketing consultant in San Diego who has never read a computer manual.
When he was 12, off school sick and feeling bored, he rooted around his dad's bookshelf and alighted on a computer manual.
"I didn't think of India as a very technological place," he said, "but waiting at a bus stop in Bangalore, I saw a man reading a computer manual". Bassett struck up a conversation, and gradually began to realize that some of his preconceptions about the country were not accurate.
And next time I pick up a computer manual I want it to be customized to my needs in the fashion described in a story about Xerox, by Paul Klebnikov (see story).
In an era where it's more common to surf the Net than the waves, Opamp has become the literary mecca for computer jocks, scientists, professors, engineers, builders, designers, technicians--indeed, anyone who needs a formula, a principle, a theorem, a handbook, a construction code or a computer manual.
No one, maybe, will learn to write a better computer manual from this exhibition; anyone who does not profit from it, be he as English as Johnson, must be a dull stick.
A 1988 Macintosh computer manual that explained, in great detail, how to use a mouse.
To adapt the face-to-face intervention to a web-based format, we evaluated participant motivation through focus group/key informant interviews (n = 7), adapted the intervention training manual for a web-based environment and provided a computer training manual.
The awards from the L.A. production of "Angels" languished in his "out" tray, and the Pulitzer Prize was buried in an armchair, under computer manuals, a Teddy bear, and a new pair of fifty-nine-dollar Army-Navy-issue black shoes, which he was going to wear that night.
Locate or download and print a copy of the system board or computer manual's BIOS section.
