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The growing interest in retrocomputing is making old programming books invaluable, especially those about 1970s and 1980s microcomputer systems and languages. F
by pamoroso 4y ago
The growing interest in retrocomputing is making old programming books invaluable, especially those about 1970s and 1980s microcomputer systems and languages. For example, I'm reading lots of books about Intel 8080 and Z80 Assembly programming, as well as CP/M.
- autoexec 4y agoYeah, old python 2 books might not be worth anything now, but I love ancient tomes about batch files, OS/2, perl, or fortran. Even old linux books can be great to flip through. Anything with early web stuff is also really interesting. The ones with long lists of URLs in the back (even with them being mostly long dead), chapters on archie or gopher/veronica... it's very cool history. Books from the early days of the internet when it was all potential and exploration, before greed and surveillance capitalism set in, are both nostalgic and inspiring.
- rwl4 4y agoI have Peter Norton’s Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC sitting on my bookshelf and pull it out occasionally and it really hits a certain spot for me. It’s a remarkable book and it’s tremendously satisfying to read. If you’re interested, you can download the early 1990’s version of Microsoft Bookshelf for DOS and it’s included on there.