It’s amateurish, but in that complimentary sense: it’s by the fans + for the fans, and the Word-like typesetting matches to me the relative inexperience of the computer… and the 1977 Apple itself.
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It also made me think about manuals as art or commentary. Outside of video games, have there ever been manuals that tried to do something like that?
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Imagine the premiere Sony Walkman manual written today, explaining the differences from Spotify rather than from record players. Or an iPod user manual that’s presented as a discourse on record labels, DRM, and piracy. Or a manual to a TV written as a… fictional story.
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Or an oral history manual for the Mac, talking about its features and design decisions as arguments between the team. Or a manual for something modern that looks and reads like one of these:pic.twitter.com/NhHgDuBRzu
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Ah, yes, indeed!!! Like later-era Lem with fictional book reviews and so on!
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I will support you if you venture out to do this!!!
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Yasssssss.
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You’ll like this. Vintage reference card. Complete with my own found pokes hand written on back.pic.twitter.com/bJZLLPn8IS
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Look at that Stranger Things font! Discovering/collecting PEEKs and POKEs was such a crucial part of the experience. Kind of like learning about CSS properties today. “This has been around all along”!?
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40 years? Gosh, that's lot. https://hackaday.com/2018/02/11/ibm-1401-runs-fortran-ii-once-more/ …
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