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Apparently a lot of us also like really old books? (mmmm 1910 manual on steel production.)
by RangerScience 4y ago
Apparently a lot of us also like really old books?
(mmmm 1910 manual on steel production.)
- palmtree3000 4y agoWait, can you link to that?
- RangerScience 4y agoFinally remembered! It's a copy of this: https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/CompositionandHeatTreatmentofSteel_10004513 https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books/CompositionandHeatTr... Mine is a dark red hardback, printed by McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1911.
- RangerScience 4y ago(this comment to be replaced by a link or other information as soon as I remember to put the book in my hand when I'm next standing near it)
- mywittyname 4y agoSeriously? I mean, I have a collection of very old engineering books, including one on Petroleum Refinery Engineering and a Reinforced Concrete Design Handbook printed when text books where $2. But I had no idea this was a "thing" among developers.
- RangerScience 4y agoApparently. I went into the Last Bookstore in Los Angeles, found that manual, and... had to have it. Didn't understand why. Mentioned that to the clerk, who said: "You're a software developer, aren't you? A lot of you have that reaction." So, very very anecdotally: yep it's a thing.