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1983The Apple II Circuit Description (archive.org)
82 points | 4 months ago with 17 comments
1974Cybernetics A to Z (archive.org)
80 points | 1 year ago with 17 comments
1966Theory of self-reproducing automata (archive.org)
80 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments
1928Plotto: A new method of plot suggestion for writers of creative fiction (archive.org)
78 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments
1978The Joys of Unix – NSA Cryptolog (archive.org)
78 points | 9 years ago with 16 comments
19841984, the Year of the 32-bit Microprocessor (archive.org)
78 points | 4 years ago with 48 comments
1914Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts (archive.org)
75 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments
1992X Window System Administrator's Guide: For X Version 11 (archive.org)
74 points | 11 months ago with 25 comments
1994Microsoft Space Simulator (archive.org)
73 points | 2 years ago with 29 comments
1980Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (archive.org)
73 points | 6 years ago with 35 comments
1898The Modern Bicycle and Its Accessories (archive.org)
71 points | 4 years ago with 28 comments
1992The Dead Mac Scrolls (archive.org)
69 points | 2 years ago with 12 comments
1983IBM Logo Manual (archive.org)
68 points | 2 years ago with 32 comments
1987A Little Smalltalk (archive.org)
68 points | 1 year ago with 15 comments
1973Bell System Vehicle Graphics Manual (archive.org)
68 points | 1 year ago with 16 comments
1898On the Foundations of Geometry by Henri Poincaré (archive.org)
66 points | 8 years ago with 13 comments
1956The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and Brainwashing (archive.org)
66 points | 8 years ago with 25 comments
1974Radar Made Easy (archive.org)
64 points | 8 years ago with 12 comments
1889Unicode (archive.org)
63 points | 3 years ago with 23 comments
1988The Call of the Ocean: Hypertext, Universal and Open (archive.org)
63 points | 4 years ago with 12 comments
1988Apple Computer: Scorpius Architectural Specification (archive.org)
63 points | 4 years ago with 20 comments
1917Geometric exercises in paper folding (archive.org)
61 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
1939Artyping (archive.org)
60 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments
1973“Computers”, BSA Merit Badge Series (archive.org)
59 points | 1 year ago with 60 comments
1981The Future of Computer Wargaming (archive.org)
58 points | 5 months ago with 27 comments
1975Psychological Problems of Interplanetary Travel (archive.org)
56 points | 1 year ago with 27 comments
1978Why Apple II Is the World's Best Selling Personal Computer (archive.org)
55 points | 3 years ago with 82 comments
1990Mondo 2000 Issue 2 (archive.org)
55 points | 6 years ago with 26 comments
1905The modern clock; a study of time keeping mechanism (archive.org)
54 points | 3 years ago with 22 comments
1968Understanding Stresses and Strains (archive.org)
52 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments
2010Pioneers of Soviet Computing (archive.org)
49 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments
2005Adobe Creative Suite 2 ESR (archive.org)
49 points | 4 months ago with 42 comments
1983Computer Crime: Pirates and Phone Phreaks (archive.org)
45 points | 3 years ago with 10 comments
1985Kevin Edwards in The Micro User – article series on 6502 (archive.org)
44 points | 9 months ago with 10 comments
1938In Korean wilds and villages (archive.org)
44 points | 8 months ago with 31 comments
1994Beyond the Read-Eval Loop: The Artifacts System (archive.org)
42 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments
1926Three Men Discuss Relativity (archive.org)
41 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
1973Effects of natural and artificial light on man and other living things (archive.org)
41 points | 7 months ago with 15 comments
1971Extraterrestrial Civilizations: Problems of Interstellar Communication (archive.org)
40 points | 2 years ago with 36 comments
1946User Manual for the Harvard Mark 1 Electro-Mechanical Computer (archive.org)
32 points | 1 year ago with 8 comments
1988Symbolics CGI production notes: How Stanley and Stella came together (archive.org)
31 points | 8 months ago with 11 comments
1862Magician's Own Book: Experiments in Electricity (archive.org)
29 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments
1953Project Mars (archive.org)
27 points | 6 months ago with 11 comments
1961Some Applications of Mechanics to Mathematics (archive.org)
27 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments
1995The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule (archive.org)
26 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments
1979A Solid State of Progress – Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation (archive.org)
22 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments
1948Einstein: Letter to the New York Times, New Palestine Party (archive.org)
20 points | 3 months ago with 3 comments
1911Wright's Book of Poultry (archive.org)
19 points | 7 months ago with 4 comments
1980Problems for computer solution (archive.org)
17 points | 8 months ago with 2 comments
1963Algorithms and Automatic Computing Machines (archive.org)
16 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments
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