On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, 2:17 PM James Knott via talk, <
talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On 2019-08-05 01:54 PM, Russell Reiter wrote:
> $50.00 for the hard cover but $70 for paperback is kind of hard to
> understand but so are lots of things these days.
That $50 is only because it's out of print. Otherwise, it would cost
more. ;-)
I borrowed it from the Mississauga Library. Perhaps other libraries
might have it. It would be nice if some of these old books could be
released as ebooks. 1986 is recent enough that it would have been
composed on a computer.
Ya an ebook would be great, you get a lot of clues to current developments from reading the words of past developers.
Personally when I got started hacking, I read operational manuals when I found them discarded for many years before I got my hands on any viable hardware. My first build in the mid 80's was a found 8086 which needed sipps and a 5mb drive for storage which I found elsewhere from other discards. Bonus, the case had two 5.25 floppy drives so you could load DOS 1.0 more quickly.
Heck that was half the fun. I lived close to IBMs Don Mills campus. At one point as IBM staff, who were living in the neighbourhood, upgraded their own home terminal units, there were treasures by the curb every week.