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This reminds me of some words of advice I noticed in an even older manual for the Apple II floppy disk drive: "To load a program named AGATHA, use the command
by plastroltech 9y ago
This reminds me of some words of advice I noticed in an even older manual for the Apple II floppy disk drive:
"To load a program named AGATHA, use the command LOAD AGATHA
and the program of that name, if there is one in the catalog, will be loaded. To test if AGATHA is loaded, see if it can walk along a straight line."
http://imgur.com/wWtR6wp http://imgur.com/wWtR6wp
- gxs 9y agoThis took me a couple re-reads to get. Very nice.
- LocalH 9y agoThe very embodiment of the spirit of computing in the 70s/80s, which is sadly missing across a large swath of computing today.
- pvg 9y agoThe early Apple ][ docs were quite lighthearted. From the 'Applesoft Tutorial': http://i.imgur.com/LfVSFK2.png http://i.imgur.com/LfVSFK2.png
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- pvg 9y agoSomeone wrote (and then apparently deleted) an interesting comment pointing out this was originally written by Jeff Raskin in the 'Apple II Basic Programming Manual'. The screenshots are from a later version called 'The Applesoft Tutorial', revised by Caryl Richardson. That version has no author credits.