Must have books for Vintage Computing

[Wai-Sun Chia]

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:
> >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

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?

> 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!
> 
> >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.

Ah. But I'm also an electronics tinkerer too.... :-)

/wai-sun