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A comment on Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf].

Re:Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf] by plastroltech on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:12PM (#15074995)
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

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Re:Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf] by pvg on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @08:01PM (#15077364)
The early Apple ][ docs were quite lighthearted. From the 'Applesoft Tutorial':

http://i.imgur.com/LfVSFK2.png

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Re:Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf] by pvg on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @12:50AM (#15078598)
Someone 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.

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Re:Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf] by LocalH on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @06:07PM (#15076784)
The very embodiment of the spirit of computing in the 70s/80s, which is sadly missing across a large swath of computing today.
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Re:Apple IIe Design Guidelines (1982) [pdf] by gxs on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:39PM (#15075226)
This took me a couple re-reads to get. Very nice.
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