8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
11:26 p.m.
On Mar 8, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
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.
p.s. Don Lancaster's books are the first on my list. :-)
/wai-sun
"The Art of Digital Design", Prosser & Winkel (isbn 0-13-046780-4)
Out of print, but you can often find copies on amazon and abebooks.com
It leads you to two different PDP-8 designs - one purely combinatorial
and
the other microprogrammed (2901-based).
Mike