[HN Gopher] The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written
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The Strangest Computer Manual Ever Written
 
Author : rkuykendall-com
Score  : 17 points
Date   : 2023-01-02 21:52 UTC (1 hours ago)
 
web link (ironicsans.substack.com)
w3m dump (ironicsans.substack.com)
 
| somat wrote:
| Porpoise
| 
| http://www.thecodelesscode.com/case/66
 
| kwhitefoot wrote:
| We need more of that sort of thing!
 
  | anfilt wrote:
  | It would be a breath of fresh air for sure.
 
| zabzonk wrote:
| flicking through the article i saw mention of the "reset" button
| on the keyboard - this was my least favourite feature of the
| 8-bit computers such as the apple ][ and the bbc micro - one slip
| of your finger often meant lost work. actually having a reset
| button was a good thing - just don't put it on the keyboard.
 
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I sense, possibly, that while this manual is weird and charming
| to us, it might have been highly frustrating to the audience it
| thought it was writing for. I've sometimes found that there's a
| big difference between a "beginner" and "an engineer's idea of a
| beginner."
 
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