credit Photo: Dan Winters Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan description The following manuals show some of the computers that paved the way for that ThinkPad or MacBook you’re likely viewing this on ...
Photo: RR Auction An old, spiral-bound, somewhat stained Apple II computer manual from 1980 went under the hammer at auction the other day. When all was said and done, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim ...
This month, my Scientific American column described the evolution of documentation for our tech products. You no longer get a printed user guide in the box; meanwhile, the computer-book industry ...
A rare manual for an Apple II Computer signed by co-founder Steve Jobs in 1980 sold at auction for nearly $800,000. According to the site RR Auction, based in Boston, the reference manual signed by ...
An unfortunate reality of pre-1990s computer systems is that any manuals and documentation that came with them likely only existed on paper. That’s not to say there aren’t scanned-in (PDF) copies of ...
On the face of it, the spiral-bound Apple II manual from decades ago doesn’t look anything special. It even has “a few small stains on the front cover,” according to Boston-based RR Auction, which ...
In the olden days—say, the 1980s—if you bought a piece of technology, a paperback user guide came with it. It was the manufacturer's one big chance to explain its engineers' thinking to you, to ...
If you are interested in how a computer works at the hardware grass-roots level, past all the hardware and software abstractions intended to make them easier to use, you can sometimes find yourself ...
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