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Technical books for microcomputers and their languages were already a dime a dozen in the 70s and 80s. Depending on the depth one was looking for, and how many candles were present on one's birthday cake, the books from Usborne Publishing in particular were definitely the wheat rather than the chaff.

The imaginatively designed books on topics such as BASIC, computer controlled robots, or music using a keyboard in conjunction with a computer have almost cult status today.

Maybe they have cult status - depends on who you ask, I guess.

Anyway, Usborne has (not just today) decided, to make a whole series of these books from the 80s available for free as PDFs. And since the link to the collection dropped down on HN this week, we couldn't help, but poke around a bit in this beautiful collection of nostalgia.

The books are definitely not out of date. If you want to inspire kids with BASIC or another topic today, these books will still be the perfect literature in 2022. And if you remember one or the other book yourself, but don't own it anymore, you can at least enjoy the digital version again here.

[If the link doesn't work, choose English as language and US as locale, then reload.]

Enjoy!