Books for DEC-heads

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com>
Date: Mon Sep 21 11:18:54 1998

Doug, I would really like to get my hands on the PDP-8 titles. Are you
looking to trade something for them perhaps? What are you interested in
collecting?
--Chuck


Doug Yowza wrote:
>
> Lucky me. I went home with a box of old DEC paperbacks today. A nice
> assortment of PDP-8, PDP-11 and VAX titles. I don't do DEC (I remember
> cherishing the honor of powering-down our development VAXen for the last
> time), but the books are small, so I plan to get them all signed by Gordon
> Bell at VCF next weekend and stash them away for 100 years or so.
>
> Except for one. This one is not only rare, but seems to be full of useful
> info: VAX-11/750 Level II Student Workbork (For Internal Use Only). This
> looks like it would be great for somebody who wants a pretty deep
> understanding of the VAX architecture, including microcode, the WCS,
> unibus, the works. I'm not good at estimating page count, but it's
> double-sided 8.5x11x2". If some DEC-head could use this, let me know.
> Offer me a trade of, say, your spare Intel MCS-4 manual and it's yours :-)
>
> -- Doug
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