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that's only because it is 157 images (one per page). if it were text it would have been a more reasonably size, albeit still much larger than the actual source
by andsoitis 1mo ago
that's only because it is 157 images (one per page).
if it were text it would have been a more reasonably size, albeit still much larger than the actual source.
however, the PDF also adds nostalgia and more information than the source alone. whether that's a good tradeoff I'll leave up to the reader, but clearly Bill Gates thinks it is more interesting to post this than point to GitHub repo. I would agree.
- RetroTechie 1mo agoI'll cut mr. Gates some slack if scanned from original printouts, and done so to avoid OCR'ing errors. That said: it's an under 4K binary right? How much effort to check that text version matches original printouts? (or even paper tape!) The guy is a billionaire ffs! If he cares, hire some people to double-check OCR output. Errors in comments aren't end of the world anyway. Then maybe throw some small(er) sized images in that pdf + link to full-sized ones on the web.