New book

[Tony Duell]

> > What does it say about me if I have several hundred books on classic 
> > computing and not one off that list?

> That you have a far more useful library.  I've also got several hundred

Well, more useful for the sort of stuff I do, anyway.

> books on classic computing, and only one of them is on that list. 
> Personally I'd rather have books that explain how to use or work on the
> hardware and software.

Agreed. A lot of the books of history seem to attempt to rewrite said 
history :-). Most of the books I have are _now_ on classic computers, but 
were on currnet machines when they were written. 

For 'history', I've got 'Automatic Digital Computers' by M. V. Wilkes, 
which I will not sell at _any_ price (well, it's autographed, OK...). 
I've also got some DEC-related book that's amusing for the number of 
errors in the photogrpahs. There's a machine -- a PDP-something-or-other 
(not an 8 or an 11) with TU55 DECtapes  -- that's shown left-right 
reversed. A picture of a microVAX is actually a microPDP11 (or vice 
versa). One of the 'microVAX chips' is nothing of the sort (I forget what 
it is, it's not a CPU at all, though). And so on.


-tony




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