I picked this up expecting to just have a fun time reading an old computer manual. But then I realised that:

(a) it's written by Frank Herbert—yes, THE Frank Herbert who wrote Dune!

(b) it's not just instruction manual but also a guide on how to think about computers, including busting myths about computers being too complicated; myths which businessmen have intentionally perpetuated to prevent the common public from getting to interested (you get the idea)

(c) being written by Frank Herbert, it's of course got a lot of philosophy and interesting anecdotes and metaphors

(d) because of all that it's not at all outdated and most of it is still relevant today!

Maybe I should sit down one day and properly learn BASIC...