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. 
8 Mar
8 Mar
9:02 p.m.
At 11:53 AM +0800 3/9/05, Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
Something worth keeping in mind is that different "versions" are
seriously different in size! The set that goes with my -8/e is a
*lot* larger than the set for the -8/m.
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 did, but gave them to someone that lost all of his in a fire a few years ago.
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?
Aren't most of the schematics on one of the PDP-8 sites? They were a
few years ago (I hope they still are, as I never slurped the site).
Ah. But I'm also an electronics tinkerer too....
:-)
In that case, Ethan's suggestion of the "Art of Electronics" is a
good one for you. Great book, I only wish I had time to study it,
I've had to give up on such things though do to lack of time (for
that matter I've had to largely give up on playing with old computers
as well).
Zane
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