By Sanddancer
It’s a rescued research library. Tens of thousands of manuals from different eras to compare, to contrast. It’s not just a pile of books, either. It’s a history of technical typography, the fonts used, the style diagrams and how they changed. Some of these books are the tales of machines that no longer exist, and of machines that will one day function again due to access to schematics and diagnostic routines. There are a lot of subtle things that these manuals may end up being useful for, keeping them from the trash means those can be thought up and executed.
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