spring cleaning

[mellowtigger]

It's hard to believe that I have books almost 100 years old in my library.

Stuff that I'm throwing away...

"The Universal Reference Library", 1949, which includes sections on "Christian Names of Men" and women
Bear cub scout book, 1975
"Tunnels of Doom" manual, for game cartridge for TI 99/4A, 1982
"MS-Basic Quick Reference Guide" 1983
Turbo Pascal 3.0 manual, for TI PC, 1985
DPath+ manual, for TI PC, 1985
"Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain", 3rd ed., 1988
"Get the most out of your Amiga" 1993
Borland C++ Builder 5 manual, 2000
various printed dictionaries (french, russian, synonym/antonym, quotations, foreign terms, etc)

Some oddities that I'm keeping...

Latin-English Dictionary by John T. White, no copyright printed anywhere I can find, 27th edition, preface dated January 1866
keeping it because it's a discard from my old high school, and it's really old

"Robinson Crusoe" hardback, published by Grosset & Dunlap of New York, no print date
keeping it because it has my mother's (maiden) name written in it, probably her childhood book
even this webpage has no date for it, #6, pale green cover

"Elementary Principles of Agriculture", 1914
keeping it because it has the name "Elmerce Wade" printed in it, which I think is my mother's father
(he died by the time I was born, so I wouldn't know)

some old AD&D v1 books
keeping it because it has the name of my ex printed in it

Comments

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

The only one I played was Adventure, and that was on a PDP-8. By the time we were using the PDP-11 we did all of our work in Pascal. I think I had this to support the students using BASIC cause I never used it. Oh wait except we had this cool little graphics PC that DEC produced called the GiGi, that had BASIC as a native language. How I wish DEC had been a serious market contender, that was such a cool machine, real graphics that the PC didn't have and real languages that the Mac didn't have. http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum/Digital/gigi/index.php

I used Turbo Pascal for years and years, the last one I had was object-oriented Pascal when that technology was new.