Other collecting activities?

From: Brian Mahoney <brianmahoney_at_look.ca>
Date: Fri Apr 16 23:11:01 2004

----- Original Message -----
> So, anyone else like to expose any other collecting and/or strange
behavior of their own? ...
> Best, David Greelish, classiccomputing.com
>

You mean other than girlfriends, ex-wives and bad debts?
Sure. California Raisins, hardcover sports books (a couple from the 40s
about the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Yankees),
old sports equipment and Mario/super Mario stuff.

Besides computer hardware/software/manuals, I also collect books about
computers. Here's a shot at another thread. My oldest is from
1962, The Thinking Machine by John Pfeiffer published by Popular Science
Living Library Program (with jacket in near mint condition.)
Shots of MIT's Lincoln Lab, Ascension Island antimissile defense system,
etc. There was a TV show by the same name and the TXo computer would write
scripts for Westerns, according to the book.
Next oldest is 1965 , 'The Computer Age and Its Potential for Management' by
Gilbert Burck and the Editors of Fortune. The one I have is the 7th
printing, believe it or not and, again, has the original dust jacket and is
in near-mint condition.
I find these books fascinating since they are not manuals. They were meant
to explain and introduce computers to the lay person. Pretty cool stuff, to
me anyway.
Lastly, I collect school textbooks about computers. Generally these are high
school Computer Science kinds of texts, full of high-res pics of all the
computers you guys talk about. Add to this the plain-English explanations of
how the various pieces interacted and you can see how I got hooked. My
background is motion picture technology and communication arts not
computers.
Who's got older books?
Received on Fri Apr 16 2004 - 23:11:01 BST