Good afternoon or whichever time of day you find yourself in. I come to you today in my
search for some non-UNIX materials for a change. The following have been on my search
list lately in no particular priority:
- Standards:
COBOL 68
C 89
C++ 98
Minimal BASIC 78
Full BASIC 87
SQL (any rev)
IS0 9660 (CD FS, any rev)
ISO 5807 (Flow Charts, any rev)
- Manuals:
PDP-11/20 Processor Handbook
(EAE manual too if it's separate)
WE32000 and family literature
GE/Honeywell mainframe and G(E)COS documents
The IBM 704 FORTRAN Manual (The -original- FORTRAN book)
The Codasyl COBOL Report (The -original- COBOL book)
Any Interdata 7 or 8/32 documentation (or other Interdata stuff really)
The Ti TMS9918 manual
The Philips "Red Book" CDDA standard
If it's part of one, the Bell System Practices Issue containing, or separately
otherwise, BSP 502-503-101 (2500 and 2554 reference)
If any of these are burning a hole in your bookshelf and you'd like to sell them off,
just let me know, I'll take em off your hands and make it worth your while. I'm
not hurting for any of them, but rather, I see an opportunity to get things on my shelf
that may facilitate expansion of some of my existing projects in new directions in the
coming years.
Also, I'm in full understanding of the rarity of some of these materials and would
like to stress my interest in quality reference material. Of course, that's not to
dismiss legitimate valuation, rather, simply to inform that I intend to turn no profit
from these materials, and wherever they wind up after their (hopefully very long) tenure
in my library will likely have happened via donation.
- Matt G.
P.S. On that last note, does anyone know if a CHM registration of an artifact[1] means
they truly have a physical object in a physical archive somewhere? That's one of the
sorts of things I intend to look into in however many decades fate gives me til I need to
start thinking about it.
[1] -
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102721523