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zozbot234yesterday at 3:13 PM2 repliesview on HN

> 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


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kev009yesterday at 6:07 PM

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.

qingcharlesyesterday at 3:37 PM

Hopefully they'll be able to write better manuals.