Designer's Toolbox

Designers' Toolbox is THE graphic designer's resource. It contains all things designer: names of various folds for brochures, HTML special characters, proof reading marks, a Lorem Ipsum generator, and so on (too much info to list in this small space). They make their money with the store, which sells handy templates (like forms or client contracts), portfolio hosting, and vector maps of this entire planet.

If it's designer info that you need, they've got it--or almost. I am still waiting for a metric/imperial unit converter... although they are readily available elsewhere on the (just Google the term).

1971 Computer Savvy

In 1971, Ladybird published "How it Works... The Computer"--One in a series of "How it Works" books (other books in this series cover the motor car, the rocket, ocean liner and telephone, among other technologies of the time). "If you are interested in computers, their function and operation, but are discouraged by their complexity, you should read this book".

Topics discussed include, "What are Computers?", "Operation of Magnetic Tape Unit", and "Does a Computer Make Mistakes?". The entire book is scanned in and available for viewing at The Pointless Museum.