Forty years ago this month, I started my first job in the PC industry. When I signed on, I thought I’d be writing a manual for a popular Apple II word processing program. Instead, I wrote one of the ...

credit Photo: Dan Winters Preliminary Macintosh Business Plan description The following manuals show some of the computers that paved the way for that ThinkPad or MacBook you’re likely viewing this on ...

Four separate manuals concerning IBM Electric Punched Card Accounting Machines held together into a single tome. The first manual is Principles of Operation, Card Punch Type 24, Printing Punch Card ...

My soon-to-be wife and I had recently moved to California from Northampton, Massachusetts, where I had just finished my doctorate in education. I had hoped to find a teaching job at Stanford or ...