Re: Old electronic data books

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:21:19 +0100, Dave <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Noone wrote:
>> Moving to a new office. So the 15 years of accumulated treasure must be
>> sorted and packed.
>>
>> I am at a loss about what to do with 56+ boxes of old electronic data
>> books. Some of these go way back. Nearly all are pre CD era. Full
>> sets of Intel, Motorola, TI, National, (even a 1972 analog applicatons
>> book), Philips. Many shelves worth of smaller company products. Then
>> there is a nearly equal number of hardcover technical books, but those
>> stay. And a full collection of Byte magazines: #1 to end.

>4) You toss whatever nobody wants.

If you have to 'toss' anything, at least donate it to the nearest
thrift store, who will sell paperbacks for $0.25 and hardbacks for $1
or so, to scroungers like me. It's where I get all my copies of
"Spring Designer's Handbook" (okay, I've only had one copy) and other
such esoteric books, and sell them on amazon.com for what the market
will bear.
The earlier National app note book(s) (at least the one with a lot
of Bob Pease articles in it) it was reprinted by Old Colony a few
years back.
Towards the end, what I saw of Byte was much like any other
consumer computer magazine, but the first 10-15 years should really be
worth something to someone.

It's inevitable that someone will need to look at an old design,
and need an old data *** on an obsolete part by an out-of-business
manufacturer. I'm sure there are many copies of these out there, but
still, they're hard to find - they're on an office shelf like yours,
or in a box in a warehouse, as opposed to in booksellers' inventories
easily searchable from a site such as bookfinder.com.
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