4 Dec
2006
4 Dec
'06
3:51 p.m.
Have y'all had much luck acquiring vintage computer books/info via
library book sales?
Well, perhaps not specifically computing, but certianly old technical
books...
A friend of mine, for example, got me 8 or so volumes of the 'Radiation
Lab Seires' from a library clearout at the company where he worked...
I bought 'Automatic Digital Computers' for a few pence from a school
library sale. Many years later I realised what I'd actually bought :-)
And I've had god finds at the public library sales -- things like the
ARRL Antenna handbook, several books on Transputers, a programming book
for the Motorola 88K, and so on. I will admit to ignoring content-free
Mac and Windows books, though.
Alas 'good' books have bevome much less common at library sales recently.
Perhaps I've already bought them all...
-tony