FORTRAN books (was: Classiccmp cartoon sighting

[Tom Peters]

At 03:22 PM 6/22/2005 -0700, you wrote:
>On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, SP wrote:
> > Are these available there ? They are unavailable here in Spain from years
> > ago. And I remember to learn Cobol with one McCracken manual.
>
>The Spanish translations of McCracken show up occasionally at the flea
>markets, but not very often.  The cover looks the same, other than the
>difference in title. My colleague with the FORTRAN book won't be back
>until December.  I'll ask her if she is willing to part with it, but since
>she has kept all of her old APL and RPG books, I doubt it.
>
>A quick search on abebooks.com turned up a bunch of German books, one
>Italian, one Romanian!, and only one Spanish one (kinda expensive!):
>http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=258879038

My Fortran 77 Programming (c) 1978 book is still sitting here on a shelf. 
It's by Brainerd, Goldberg, and Gross. Is that valuable?

How about this one: Introduction to Programming, 2nd ed, September 1970, 
Digitial PDP-8 Series.



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