> Just a little over ten years ago [...] a collection of 13,000 manuals now lives on the Internet Archive

That's a crazy amount of time, with a nice amount of manuals now publicly available, about ~3.5 manuals PER DAY, for a decade! Few people are as dedicated as Jason Scott when it comes to making sure information stays free and available, thank you a lot for what you, Archive Team and Internet Archive is doing for all of us!

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stavros a day ago | parent | next [-]

I follow him on Bluesky and he routinely raises money to buy things on auction and scan them/digitize them and upload them for free. One-of-a-kind concert tapes, obscure software floppy disks, random manuals, videotapes of random shows, anything old, he digitizes it and imports it into the Internet Archive.

Really doing great work preserving stuff that would otherwise be lost to time.

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zozbot234 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> a collection of 13,000 manuals now lives on the Internet Archive

Why are we even doing this? This is just humanity giving free extra training to its future robot overlords. /s

	▲	kev009 a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Most of that was vintage test equipment AFAICT. It is nice to be able to query an LLM and say "how do I fix this boat anchor with these symptoms". These tools have been quite helpful for retrocomputing hobbies for me.
	▲	qingcharles a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Hopefully they'll be able to write better manuals.