[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)
        
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       | somat wrote:
       | Porpoise
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       | 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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