Exluddite
Experienced Member
I have been interested in older machines for a while now. Some of them since they weren't old! When I was a kid I had a TRS-80 III with a tape drive (no disk drives) that I wish I still had. My highschool used C 64's, but I wasn't paying much attention to what was going on in class at the time..*cough*
Anyway, now I'm back in school and studying computer science, and the older machines have re-fascinated me. Unfortunately, I don't really have the space to collect many machines. If I see one, I'm not going to resist snagging it though.
So I started collecting books, mostly language reference.
Thus far I have:
Programming Language One (Bates and Douglas)
Reference manual for the Ada programming language (DoD)
A scattered selection of DOS reference books
and my latest Ebay snag,
A spiral bound copy of Altair 8800b documentation
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5126437343
One thing I've been somewhat interested in (actually suggested by my brother when I was talking to him) is getting into the history of computer development. More from the perspective of the programming languages though (you guys seem to do a good job on the hardware end!). Too bad I didn't hold on to the books I was using to learn BASIC... :D
Anyway, now I'm back in school and studying computer science, and the older machines have re-fascinated me. Unfortunately, I don't really have the space to collect many machines. If I see one, I'm not going to resist snagging it though.
So I started collecting books, mostly language reference.
Thus far I have:
Programming Language One (Bates and Douglas)
Reference manual for the Ada programming language (DoD)
A scattered selection of DOS reference books
and my latest Ebay snag,
A spiral bound copy of Altair 8800b documentation
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=5126437343
One thing I've been somewhat interested in (actually suggested by my brother when I was talking to him) is getting into the history of computer development. More from the perspective of the programming languages though (you guys seem to do a good job on the hardware end!). Too bad I didn't hold on to the books I was using to learn BASIC... :D