Jef Raskin's final gift to Aza (2010)
Jef Raskin's BASIC Programming Manual [1] for the original Apple II is truly delightful.  That is was written in 1978, for such a arcane little machine like the original Apple II, is all the more amazing.<p>It demonstrates as well as anything his ambitions to bring computers to the average person, at a time when very few people understood the potential of the home computing market.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Apple/Apple%20II%20Basic%20Programming%20Manual.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Apple/Apple%20II%20Basic%...</a> (Big PDF)