8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
7:53 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 19:40:54 -0800, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
At 11:15 AM +0800 3/9/05, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
Yeah. I do have a growing collection of handbooks. But I'm missing on
the peripherals side for the mid-70s; i.e. between 75-79. Do you have
surplus?
I'm building my personal library for vintage
computing. I need to
probe the collective wisdom of the list in what books must a "wannabe"
collector (like me) should have on his/her bookshelf.
Although I collect primarily DEC stuff, I don't want my knowledge to
be just restricted to what DEC had to offer.
If you're primarily interested in DEC stuff, a good collection of DEC
Handbooks is a must, as is a Doc Set for each of the OS's that you're interested in. If you're into PDP-8's, the 3
Volume -8/e/f/m
I have printed vol1 from bitsavers. The few that came up on ePay was
way out of my budget. I did, however scarfed an original vol2. I also
noticed that vol3 in bitsavers are not really complete though...but
good enough for a working copy I suppose.
The 8/m/e/f engineering docs are also something that I have been
searching for 1 year plus already...all the usual places don't have
it. And the only person I know who has it doesn't have a scanner.. :-)
Can anyone contribute the 8/e/m schematics to bitsavers?
Maintenance Manual set is excellent as well. Remember
any DEC
hardware from before the 90's is going to be *well* documented, if
you can find copies of the books!
Ah. But I'm also an electronics tinkerer too.... :-)
/wai-sun
p.s. Don Lancaster's books are the first on my
list. :-)
/wai-sun
I've got the TV Typewriter book, and I think some other stuff by him,
and as a DEC collector it's only of mild interest.