'Nobody in his right mind would sign [a licensing agreement]. But personal computerists do it. Are they of unsound mind?'
contain pearls of wisdom such as that personal computers"are just super fast, super expensive calculators" and its role in your life is"more as a flunky" than running it. It also opens with this semi-inspiring straight-talking:
Later comes a new chapter: The Ancestral Territorial Imperatives of the Trumpeter Swan."Unless you were fascinated by birds, you probably wouldn't turn to this section of the manual first." Point taken. This is the 'getting started' part of the manual but, as the writer explains, if they'd just called it that then you might have skipped the introduction.
"Program manufacturers are natural paranoids" says the manual. Those bastards want you to pay for their work! Not when the ACE 100 is around, my friend. The manual includes an entire section explaining to the user how to circumvent typical 1980s software copy protection in order to make"personal backups", before going on to explain that there are three types of crook in the computer world.
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