YSK the Internet Archive has a giant depository of scanned-in manuals for virtually anything you can think of that needs one, going back decades.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Archive.org is the greatest treasure of our current times

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have been doing lots of deep dives and finding so much great stuff.

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• scrion@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a big fan of archive.org and I regularly look for manuals, but they don’t show up in common searches as a source, so knowing that now is really helpful. Thanks!

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  • Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Their search isn’t great, I get better results using site:archive.org on Google

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    • Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      sounds like we could get venture capital funding for making a front end for this and mentioning AI.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I often do that too. Sometimes browsing by category is useful too though.

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• Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I used it just last week to find the manual for my 20 year old VCR.

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• hinterlufer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  archive.org is great, but is it just me or is the site just super slow all the time?

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• fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes I used it for the manual for my VCR. I then used it to upload a copy I took of a BBC 20th anniversary night of Star Trek 🤣

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