In this unscripted episode of Veronica Explains, I hang out with my good friends Taylor and Amy from @TaylorAmyShow and we rant/rave about documentation, and compare the (often sorry) state of today's Linux/FOSS docs against the (often fantastic) documentation we had when vintage computers were just called computers.

Videos and channels mentioned in the episode:
🖥️ The Computer Chronicles "Computers in Education" from 1983: https://archive.org/details/Computer_Chronicles/Season+01/Computer+Chronicles+-+01x26+-+Computers+in+Education.mpeg
🫡 The late, great Jim Butterfield's classic C64 training tape: https://archive.org/details/commodore-64-training-tape-with-jim-butterfield
🤩 The sequel to this episode, over on Taylor and Amy's channel:
👈 Robin from @8_Bit , a favorite YouTube channel of mine
🗃️ Eric from @EricsEdgeVideos who provided Taylor and Amy with Multiplan!

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Chapters
0:00 Reading manuals with Taylor and Amy
2:13 The Commodore 64 User's Guide
8:00 By The Editors of Consumer Guide, The User's Guide to Texas Instruments TI-994A Computer, Software, & Peripherals
12:37 About my good friends Taylor and Amy!
13:05 Odyssey2 Computer Intro
16:52 Waxing poetic about generations and their needs
19:03 Look at this Multiplan manual!