8 Mar
2005
8 Mar
'05
7:40 p.m.
At 11:15 AM +0800 3/9/05, 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.
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
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!
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.
Zane
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