Availability of schematics mandated by law...

[Externet]

Years ago, it was made law for manufacturers to make schematics available to their customers. (Perhaps 1992 ¿?)

Cannot remember if this was a California or an all USA affair.
Can anyone provide some related links please. Am unable to find it by myself, of if such was halted or still applies.
Thanks.

 

[ke5frf]

If that is a law, then they surely flew in the face of it! Early 90s was about the time when companies QUIT making schematics publically available. Too many lawyers and liability suits and too much money lost when people can fix their old stuff easily.

 

[Conrad Hoffman]

I'm not sure it even matters, and there's no way companies could be forced to reveal what they consider proprietary. I doubt it's a law. Todays schematics would just show a bunch of custom blocks anyway. You can't repair silicon. The days of discrete parts are long gone.