27 May
2006
27 May
'06
10:56 p.m.
(anything but MS Windows XP). One of my major sources
is the outlet store
for the local county library system. You can't believe the stuff that gets
donated to them and that they turn right around and either throw out or put
It's the same round here (or was, now donors seem to have wised up a
bit). I remmeber when a lot of science/computing books were donated to
the local library, and they sold them all off at _very_ low prices in a
book sale. I picked up things like 'Handbook of Mathematical Funcitons',
'The ARRL Antenna handbook'. 'Communicating Sequential Processes'.
'BCPL
-- The Language and its Compiler', and many more less famous works for
about 10p each.
-tony