>From: Tiger(a)nospam_address.org (Tiger) >Newsgroups: alt.marketplace.books,misc.books.technical,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.forsale.computers.other.misc >Subject: FS: Many older computer books, software manuals, and electronic data books (last chance moving sale) >Message-ID: <371bde4e.25263337(a)news.silcom.com> >X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.5/32.452 >X-No-Archive: yes >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Lines: 56 >Date: Sun, 04 Apr 1999 03:41:25 GMT >NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.71.222.92 >X-Trace: newsfeed.avtel.net 923197029 207.71.222.92 (Sat, 03 Apr 1999 19:37:09 PST) >NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 19:37:09 PST >Organization: Avtel Communications >Path: news1.jps.net!news-west.eli.net!newsbox.grin.net!uunet!ffx.uu.net!in2.uu.net!WCG!newsfeed.avtel.net!not-for-mail >Xref: news1.jps.net alt.marketplace.books:777 misc.books.technical:28 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:95 misc.forsale.computers.other.misc:212 > >x-no-archive: yes > >I'M MOVING VERY SOON. If these items are not gone in a couple weeks they >will be donated to charity, or I will keep and pay to move them. > >Please see the end of this message for my correct email address. >------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >BOOKS - I have a couple hundred computer books, programming books, >electronic data books, and technical books (a lot of reference books are for >Apple and Amiga, such as the Addision-Wesley series) -- most are from the >1980's. I also have a few math and physics textbooks. > >If someone were to buy all my books I'd probably sell most of them at an average >price of $2-$3 each (less if you pick them up in person). There are a few, such >as the Apple and Amiga development/technical books that I'd want more than >$5 each. > >SOFTWARE MANUALS - a couple hundred manuals without the disks for things like >Borland Turbo products, Microsoft products (C/C++, Visual Basic, FoxPro, etc), >DBase III+ and IV, Autocad, etc. If someone were to buy all of these, I'd >probably sell most of them at an average price of $1 each (less if you pick them >up in person). > >Please look at my lists and feel free to ignore the prices and make reasonable >offers. My main criteria are: I have to get enough money to make the transaction >worth the effort and the amount needs to be reasonably close to what I think >I'll get from my charitable donations. > >All of my lists are at: > >http://www.silcom.com/~tiger > >As I mentioned above, if you can come by Santa Barbara, California, and pick up >a lot of stuff in person we'll work out a really good deal. You don't have to >buy *everything* to get a great price but it needs to be a signficant amount. >I'm tired of wasting my time on small transactions. Anything under $50 is small >in my eyes and barely worth the trouble. I don't start to get too interested >until the amount exceeds $100. I have a total of about 500 books to thin out >in less than 2 weeks (all deals need to be worked out by the end of next week). >Selling a few books here and there doesn't make a dent. I want someone to >clean me out of most of my books! Aren't there any computer book museum >collectors? > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Send email to tiger(a)silWXYZcom.com - Remove WXYZ to reply. > >For other computer hardware, software, and books for Amiga, Apple, Atari, >Commodore, IBM, Macintosh, and TI-99/4A please visit my web page at: > http://www.silcom.com/~tiger > >I'm requesting a $20 minimum transaction (before shipping). Money orders >are required because I no longer have time to wait for checks to clear. > >This will probably be the last time I post these items for sale. If you're >interested in something, buy it now or never.