An Apple manual from the end of the 70s: https://archive.org/details/The_Applesoft_Tutorial_HQ_color/page/n19/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/The_Applesof

An Apple manual from the end of the 70s: https://archive.org/details/The_Applesoft_Tutorial_HQ_color/page/n19/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/The_Applesoft_Tutorial_HQ_color/... And they only got fancier from there. If anything, current manuals and books are a lot less frilly than your typical early personal computer manual.