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Proprietor of https://t.co/sdyjXHCZF7, historian, filmmaker, archivist, storyteller. Works on/for the Internet Archive. Rank Amateur.

Oct 10, 2021, 16 tweets

Care and Training of your Pet Rock Manual.

archive.org/details/pet_ro…

Your Stay at Palmer Antarctic Station Manual.

archive.org/details/palmer…

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Manual, Declassified.

archive.org/details/000375…

Gasoline Retailer Service Station Flat Rate Manual, 1959.

archive.org/details/gas_20…

Tom Swift Lives! The layout for the Community Memory Tom Swift Terminal, by Lee Felsenstein, 1974.

archive.org/details/felsen…

The Tom Swift Terminal: A Convivial Cybernetic Device,
by Lee Felsenstein

The spark that began the idea of a Bulletin Board System, before Randy and Ward came in 1978 to set the torch aglow.

archive.org/details/tom-sw…

"Are not gross Bodies and Light convertible into one another, and may not Bodies receive much of their Activity from the Particles of Light which enter their Composition?" - Isaac Newton

Lee Felsenstein (@lfelsenstein), 1974:

Lee Felsenstein, who cobbled together pieces of what became the home computer and online revolution, is on Patreon and on Twitter.

@lfelsenstein
patreon.com/lfelsenstein

National Park Service Sign Manual, 1988.

archive.org/details/nps-19…

The Pleasure Horse, by the Light Horse Committee of the New England Land Grant Universities.

archive.org/details/theple…

The Frontier Village (Amusement Park) Phone Girl Guide, 1976.

archive.org/details/fronti…

1967 National Order of the Arrow Conference Training Manual.

archive.org/details/1967_N…

REPAIRMEN MAY GYP YOU, Roger Rus and John Patric (Reader's Digest), 1951.

archive.org/details/REPAIR…

Off to my Sunday errands. You will have to find other items... manually.

archive.org/details/manuals

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