I don't know if this fellow has anything of interest or not, but the
documentation hunters may want to contact him directly...
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On Sun, 04 Apr 1999 03:41:25 GMT, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc you wrote:
>>From: Tiger_at_nospam_address.org (Tiger)
>>Newsgroups: alt.marketplace.books,misc.books.technical,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.forsale.computers.other.misc
>>Subject: FS: Many older computer books, software manuals, and electronic data books (last chance moving sale)
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>>I'M MOVING VERY SOON. If these items are not gone in a couple weeks they
>>will be donated to charity, or I will keep and pay to move them.
>>
>>Please see the end of this message for my correct email address.
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>>BOOKS - I have a couple hundred computer books, programming books,
>>electronic data books, and technical books (a lot of reference books are for
>>Apple and Amiga, such as the Addision-Wesley series) -- most are from the
>>1980's. I also have a few math and physics textbooks.
>>
>>If someone were to buy all my books I'd probably sell most of them at an average
>>price of $2-$3 each (less if you pick them up in person). There are a few, such
>>as the Apple and Amiga development/technical books that I'd want more than
>>$5 each.
>>
>>SOFTWARE MANUALS - a couple hundred manuals without the disks for things like
>>Borland Turbo products, Microsoft products (C/C++, Visual Basic, FoxPro, etc),
>>DBase III+ and IV, Autocad, etc. If someone were to buy all of these, I'd
>>probably sell most of them at an average price of $1 each (less if you pick them
>>up in person).
>>
>>Please look at my lists and feel free to ignore the prices and make reasonable
>>offers. My main criteria are: I have to get enough money to make the transaction
>>worth the effort and the amount needs to be reasonably close to what I think
>>I'll get from my charitable donations.
>>
>>All of my lists are at:
>>
>>http://www.silcom.com/~tiger
>>
>>As I mentioned above, if you can come by Santa Barbara, California, and pick up
>>a lot of stuff in person we'll work out a really good deal. You don't have to
>>buy *everything* to get a great price but it needs to be a signficant amount.
>>I'm tired of wasting my time on small transactions. Anything under $50 is small
>>in my eyes and barely worth the trouble. I don't start to get too interested
>>until the amount exceeds $100. I have a total of about 500 books to thin out
>>in less than 2 weeks (all deals need to be worked out by the end of next week).
>>Selling a few books here and there doesn't make a dent. I want someone to
>>clean me out of most of my books! Aren't there any computer book museum
>>collectors?
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>>
>>For other computer hardware, software, and books for Amiga, Apple, Atari,
>>Commodore, IBM, Macintosh, and TI-99/4A please visit my web page at:
>> http://www.silcom.com/~tiger
>>
>>I'm requesting a $20 minimum transaction (before shipping). Money orders
>>are required because I no longer have time to wait for checks to clear.
>>
>>This will probably be the last time I post these items for sale. If you're
>>interested in something, buy it now or never.
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho,
Blue Feather Technologies -- kyrrin (at) bluefeathertech [dot] com
Web:
http://www.bluefeathertech.com
"...No matter how we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object,
event, or living thing in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of them..."
Received on Sun Apr 04 1999 - 03:25:06 BST