The Manx Catalog archives computer manuals, and there are a great many to be found there: "22165 manuals, 10104 of which are online, at 61 websites." It's an archive of archives! Manx covers the ...

This month, my Scientific American column described the evolution of documentation for our tech products. You no longer get a printed user guide in the box; meanwhile, the computer-book industry ...

In the olden days—say, the 1980s—if you bought a piece of technology, a paperback user guide came with it. It was the manufacturer's one big chance to explain its engineers' thinking to you, to ...