It's kind of rude of people who used to write retromanuals for retrosoftware of retrocomputers invariably neglected to put in a section addressed to the Dear Reader from Distant Future of Thirty, Forty, or maybe even Fifty Years.
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It's kind of rude of people who used to write retromanuals for retrosoftware of retrocomputers invariably neglected to put in a section addressed to the Dear Reader from Distant Future of Thirty, Forty, or maybe even Fifty Years.
People who today write future retromanuals for computers and software that will be retro in the distant future: do better than the cave-tech writers.
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Paolo Amorosoreplied to Riley S. Faelan last edited by
@riley What kind of material do you suggest covering for distant future readers?
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Paolo Amoroso last edited by
@amoroso Doesn't matter. The old manuals were written on a long-obsolete fibrous material called "pae-pah" somehow made by killing trees directly rather than using the civilised tree-killing technique of ruining the climate, and yet we can easily read them displayed on our futuristic visi-screens.
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Riley S. Faelanreplied to Paolo Amoroso last edited by
@amoroso As for the text material, the main points are: what this thing does, why it seemed like a good thing at the time, and which other ancient pieces of tech you need to connect to it if you want to play with it.
