Must have books for Vintage Computing

[Zane H. Healy]

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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