Must have books for Vintage Computing

[Ethan Dicks]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 12:10:15 +0800, Wai-Sun Chia <waisun.chia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah. That's the electronics geek bible.
> I bit the bullet and bought it a couple of years back when I was even poorer.
> Cost me a pretty penny..had to sacrifice some "luxuries" in order to
> afford it..like food.
> 
> But I have never regretted buying it. :-)

I feel the same way about my copy of "Computer Networks" by Andy
Tanenbaum (of Minix fame)... really good stuff in there.
 
> *pops over to amazon* it still costs $55.79 (new) today. I suppose
> good stuff won't come cheap...

That's not a bad price, really.  Less than I paid for either my
"Minix" or "Computer Networks" book.

-ethan