Bidding Against NASA

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Mon May 13 10:59:14 2002

> At one time I did have the first three years of DDJ. I
> was a charter subscriber but to tell the truth I was never
> very impressed with it and I discontinued it and threw out
> the back issues a long time ago. If you'd been in the area
> about 6 months ago y ou would have had a good chance of
> grabbing the first three years of Byte and first two years of
> Kilobaud magazines that I pitched. (Easy come, easy go!)

For those of us who write code, it's been and remains one of
the most significant journals in print. Byte and Kilobaud
in those days were good for both code jockys and the hardware
types; I built but never tested a light pen based on an
article in Byte. I created an implentation of a comprehensive
memory test published in Kilobaud, and have used it on many
different platforms, including embedded systems.

> I also gave away a nearly complete set of HP Journals
> (only missing about 8 issues between 1954 to present). I do miss them.

But these would have been and would still be useless to
me, and would likely have been trashed.

One man's trash is another man's treasure, for sure.

-dq
Received on Mon May 13 2002 - 10:59:14 BST