Whilst cleaning up the office the other day I threw out my managers DOS4 manual complete with original 3.5 floppies - He was less than impressed when he found out, at the time I laughed and showed people! (I did keep his 8 inch floppies though cos i thought they were really collectors items)
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, I still have a COBOL, Pascal, Operating Systems text > books from 1980-81 and a few more recent ones. > I also have a collection of Internet "Start Up Kits" from > about 1996. > > If any of your books are published in Australia, or are of > particular significance the NLA or Powerhouse Museum may be > interested. I think there are a few Computer Hardware > museums around but I imagine manuals and software will be > lost in history. > > Marghanita > > Kyle wrote: >> >> I (as no doubt a lot of you) have been collecting over the years any >> number of technical books for which I no longer have any need. >> >> Rather than simply bin them, does anyone know of any organisation that >> willingly accepts old tech. books? >> >> At the moment, the list is basically; >> >> Some Solaris 8 admin books >> SOme Cisco technical books >> win32 api >> core java >> >> Is there any organisation anyone know of might want these? Or are they >> destined for no-frills loo paper? >> > > > -- > Marghanita da Cruz > http://ramin.com.au > Tel: 0414-869202 > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
