We used to write good documentation... (w/The Taylor and Amy Show)

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.

To see part two of this video, where we attempt to speedrun Multiplan, go check out Taylor and Amy's video:    • TI99/4A Hijinks...with Veronica Explains  

Other videos and channels mentioned in the episode:
🖥️ The Computer Chronicles "Computers in Education" from 1983: https://archive.org/details/Computer_...
🫡 The late, great Jim Butterfield's classic C64 training tape: https://archive.org/details/commodore...
👈 Robin from ‪@8_Bit‬, a favorite YouTube channel of mine
🗃️ Eric from ‪@EricsEdgeVideos‬ who provided Taylor and Amy with Multiplan!

The books/software we discussed today:

- The Commodore 64 User's Guide: https://archive.org/details/commodore...
- The TI994A book with the very long title: https://archive.org/details/tibook_th...
- The Odyssey 2 Computer Intro manual: https://archive.org/details/computer-...
- The TI-99/4A version of Multiplan: https://archive.org/details/microsoft...

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Chapters
0:00 Reading manuals with Taylor and Amy
2:13 The Commodore 64 User's Guide
8:00 BTEoCGTUGtTITI994ACS&P
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!

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