I follow him on Bluesky and he routinely raises money to buy things on auction and scan them/digitize them and upload them for free. One-of-a-kind concert tapes, obscure software floppy disks, random manuals, videotapes of random shows, anything old, he digitizes it and imports it into the Internet Archive.
replyReally doing great work preserving stuff that would otherwise be lost to time.
> a collection of 13,000 manuals now lives on the Internet Archive
replyWhy are we even doing this? This is just humanity giving free extra training to its future robot overlords. /s
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.
replyHopefully they'll be able to write better manuals.
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