Good day. I'm a retired IT professional of roughly 40 years. I began by programming mainframes, then moving briefly to Sun machines, got involved early on with small machine networking while writing Clipper database applications for small networks. I got involved in web programming and spent a few years handling SAS programming, managing the workstation network, handling the Unix responsibilities as well as maintaining an aging mainframe. Once leaving that behind, I took a position at a private school that wanted everything networked as well as building out two computer labs with 40 PCs each. I had to design, pull and punch it all down myself as the school had high expectations but little budget. After relocating, I took a position as a network administrator at a university College with a nonexistent network. I designed and built the system, and as it grew into two subnets tied together as a virtual, I was promoted to IT Director, which is how I finished out my last eight years. I was fortunate to make good hires and had great GA support every semester.
That's pretty much a thumbnail of my career.
Along the way I developed a large professional library of approximately 135 books, manuals and software that I was considering basically dumpstering with regrets, but an old colleague suggested that I talk to you folks about their actual value as a historical professional IT collection as they are mostly all 1st editions from the late 70s, early 80s, covering some mainframe manuals, dBase and Clipper manuals, software, C, C+, pascal, object pascal, compiler design, etc. I'm pretty much at a loss on all of this as I kept them for sentimental reasons, I had no idea anyone collected these books.
So, I'll be checking out this forum and probably asking for advice, as I have no idea how to locate collectors or even how to value these items.
That's pretty much a thumbnail of my career.
Along the way I developed a large professional library of approximately 135 books, manuals and software that I was considering basically dumpstering with regrets, but an old colleague suggested that I talk to you folks about their actual value as a historical professional IT collection as they are mostly all 1st editions from the late 70s, early 80s, covering some mainframe manuals, dBase and Clipper manuals, software, C, C+, pascal, object pascal, compiler design, etc. I'm pretty much at a loss on all of this as I kept them for sentimental reasons, I had no idea anyone collected these books.
So, I'll be checking out this forum and probably asking for advice, as I have no idea how to locate collectors or even how to value these items.
