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| From | Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers, comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall |
| Date | 2015-10-06 22:47 -0400 |
| Organization | National Capital Freenet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Message-ID | <alpine.LNX.2.02.1510062244130.6634@darkstar.example.org> (permalink) |
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Louis Krupp wrote: > On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 00:41:06 GMT, Hendrik Boom > <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 19:39:59 -0600, Louis Krupp wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 01:01:19 +0000 (UTC), John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I was talking to a curator at the Computer History Museum in California >>>> last week. He said they're trying to beef up their software collection, >>>> and that if you have manuals for interesting comptuers that are *not* >>>> already in bitsavers, drop them a note. >>> >>> Are we talking about Al? >>> >>> http://www.computerhistory.org/staff/Al,Kossow/ >>> >>> Al reads this group, and I know he's seen my posts. If he were to ask >>> me to screen my stuff against bitsavers, and if he were to tell me what >>> happened to the items I loaned him for scanning thirteen years ago (I >>> sent a return envelope and priority mail postage, and one item was an >>> IBM 1440 autocoder manual that I'd had since high school), I'd be more >>> than happy to do my bit for the Museum. >>> >>> If the Museum would like to give away the stuff they don't need to scan, >>> or even some of the other stuff once they've scanned it, I could just >>> bring whatever would fit on a truck. It's about a three-day drive from >>> Boulder to North Shoreline Drive, and the local Penske rep and I are on >>> a first-name basis... >>> >>> Louis >> >> I'd like to pint out that if they scan the books, make them available on >> the web, and then even destroy the books, they are not destroying >> knowledge, which is what you seem to be worried about. They are >> replicating it and making it more available than ever. >> >> And, for the record, one of the more efficient ways of scanning a book is >> to cut its binding off so you have a stack of loose pages, and then >> putting the stack of pages into the automatic feed of a high-end scanner. >> >> So destroying the book is itself useful > > I'm open to constructive suggestions from the Internet Archive or the > Computer History Museum. Sending anything to the CHM is contingent on > Al telling me what happened to the stuff I sent him back in 2002. > > I still intend to catalog what I've got and then to get rid of excess > books that nobody is ever going to care about. Structured > programming, object-oriented design, trendy stuff that was hot for a > while ... there might be a point in keeping one or two copies > somewhere, but I know I've got a lot of those titles. > This is important work, tedious as it might be. Last night out of curiosity I did a search on a book from Motorola about Phase Locked Loops, that I'd read about decades ago but never seen. It turned out there is a copy at bitsavers, so now I can actually see if the book has any contents that I didn't have through other data and application books. Some really old and seemingly obscure technical books have appeared online because someone took the time to scan them. Some are books I've seen, but never had my own copy, some are just legendary technical books that I've only seen references to. And we probably don't say enough about how we appreciate this work. Michael
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Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-22 12:48 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2015-09-22 11:27 -0700
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-09-22 15:08 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-22 23:16 +0100
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-23 13:08 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-09-23 01:01 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-09-22 19:39 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Al Kossow <aek@bitsavers.org> - 2015-09-23 06:38 -0700
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-09-23 16:27 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> - 2015-10-06 00:41 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-10-06 19:36 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-06 22:47 -0400
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Stephen Thomas Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2015-10-07 03:28 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-10-07 03:41 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 04:03 +0100
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-23 10:14 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-23 13:08 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-09-23 12:47 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-09-23 14:15 -0500
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-09-23 14:17 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-09-23 21:09 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-09-23 22:56 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-09-23 17:05 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-23 15:49 -0700
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-09-24 10:48 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-24 13:35 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-09-24 10:51 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-24 13:36 -0400
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-09-24 12:06 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-24 16:13 -0500
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-24 11:36 -0700
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-25 12:27 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-25 12:57 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-25 13:06 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> - 2015-10-06 00:45 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-24 16:09 -0500
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net> - 2015-09-27 12:00 -0600
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-28 13:43 +0000
Re: 100 boxes of computer books on the wall jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-23 13:08 +0000
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