Now this is one amazing Goodwill find : A vintage pop - up book designed to teach burgeon nerd about the wonders of the modern computer . Floppy disks , ASCII , and the dot - ground substance printer . Oh my .
Some of this poppycock is amazing , like an American Standard Code for Information Interchange and binary decoder , and the hilarious message on the dot - matrix printer :
Now that we ’ve met , I ’m ready to work — and play — with you . See you soon ! Goodbye .
Computers used to be so adorable ( and polite ! ) . [ JonathanRyan ]
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