PILLAGE! FREE BOOKS!
Apr. 5th, 2006 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneNot that any of you can exploit it. :-)
As I was leaving my algebra class an hour ago and heading for my lab, I noticed LOTS of books stacked on a table in the lobby area. Anything there is free game, so I started browsing....
I now have about ten computer books in my car.
Fortunately Russet doesn't read my blog, so hopefully I can sneak them into the house safely.
A teacher was clearing out junk from his office and apparently taught a lot of computer science and programming. I qot some cool stuff on Ada, Lisp, Prolog, AI, and a reference to UCSD Pascal which is probably hopelessly dated but might be useful (for those of us who are Ex-Buffalos, UCSD Pascal is what Steve wrote Heroic Fantasy in).
There were some amazing antiques there, too. Books on CP/M, Wordstar, Multiplan, VisiCalc, dBase II. He had a book for writing programs in BASIC for the TRS-80 Model I/II.
WOW.
The frightening thing was that I'd owned or used several of the books that he was trashing!
The coolest thing that he was giving away was a computer -- a Texas Instrument TI-99/4A. I USED TO SELL THOSE THINGS WHEN THEY CAME OUT! It had the Frogger cartridge and a couple of semi-trashed joysticks. Geez, it's amazing the stuff that you stumble across that can make you feel a little bit dated.
As I was leaving my algebra class an hour ago and heading for my lab, I noticed LOTS of books stacked on a table in the lobby area. Anything there is free game, so I started browsing....
I now have about ten computer books in my car.
Fortunately Russet doesn't read my blog, so hopefully I can sneak them into the house safely.
A teacher was clearing out junk from his office and apparently taught a lot of computer science and programming. I qot some cool stuff on Ada, Lisp, Prolog, AI, and a reference to UCSD Pascal which is probably hopelessly dated but might be useful (for those of us who are Ex-Buffalos, UCSD Pascal is what Steve wrote Heroic Fantasy in).
There were some amazing antiques there, too. Books on CP/M, Wordstar, Multiplan, VisiCalc, dBase II. He had a book for writing programs in BASIC for the TRS-80 Model I/II.
WOW.
The frightening thing was that I'd owned or used several of the books that he was trashing!
The coolest thing that he was giving away was a computer -- a Texas Instrument TI-99/4A. I USED TO SELL THOSE THINGS WHEN THEY CAME OUT! It had the Frogger cartridge and a couple of semi-trashed joysticks. Geez, it's amazing the stuff that you stumble across that can make you feel a little bit dated.
