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Discovered: The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World
Image by Clemens Pfeiffer via Wikimedia Commons The first computer I ever sat before, the 1983 Apple IIe, had a manual the size of a textbook, which included a primer on programming languages and a chapter entitled “Getting Down to Business and Pleasure.” By “pleasure,” Apple mostly meant “electronic worksheets,” “word processors,” and “database management.” […]
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