I feel like I am destroying history!
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I'm moving the computers and setting up a office in a room we don't use much, so I'm clearing it out first. This has stuff in boxes that I haven't opened since we moved in - nearly 8 years ago. So, I'm going to be ruthless! Honest... Oooh look! One of Michelles silver cat earings - oh, and a silver chain. She hasn't even noticed they are gone. Books! Newman and Sproull: "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" Knuth: "The Art Of Computer Programming, Fundamental Algorithms" The complete documentation for Visual C++ Version 1.0 QuickC for Windows original Manual! Microsoft Quick C for DOS manual! And they will have to go to the tip! They are way too heavy to sell on FleaBay - the postage costs would cripple it, and the local charity shops won't want them. How can I chuck this stuff? :((
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
Reminds me of an old gag... And there, deep in the recesses of the darkest part of the cave network, they found a chest, and, locked inside was a book thought lost for centuries. Carefully they extracted it, and with immense care and attention slowly opened the pages. Filled with awe and wonder at the contents, they knew it was valuable and yet forbidden. It was "The Book of Irish Dancing Volume Two : The Arms"
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CDP1802 wrote:
Don't sell them at all. This[^] was my first programming book ever. I still have it and don't ever want to get rid of it.
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My logic is impeccable; my arithmetic lets me down.
To most people probably not, but there are always those who tinker around with ancient systems and are very grateful for every document they can get their hands on.
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The Knuth was my first programming book. "Learning curve" was not a phrase they had invented then... :laugh:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
Great. When I got that book, I was about 12 years old and really wanted to get a computer. Not that I had anything near what an Atari 800, Apple II or, if it must be, a TRS-80 would have cost. That's why I used to raid every nearby store where they had any computers and was regularily thrown out. Except for the local Radio Shack, where one day some man in a suit told his guys not to throw me out, but to put me in their little classroom when it was free :) This really was fun :)
And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
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Um. The problem is, that's the room I'm emptying out. Or to be more accurate, the room I'm clearing is the overflow from the semi-permanent storage room... :-O
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
Build an extension? That gives you more attic space :laugh: Or I bet you can go through the other stuff in the attic and find things which are less valuable (in sentimental terms) than this stuff. We recently had to clear our attic so we could put roof insulation in, and some of the crap that had been put up there 20 years ago we were like " ... why did we put this up here? /me bins". And there's a good chance that even if the filtering doesn't do a lot you can repack in a more space-efficient manner and fit the computer stuff in there too. I'm not sure about some of those books but the Knuth one at least is a piece of CS history and you should find a way to keep it.
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I'm moving the computers and setting up a office in a room we don't use much, so I'm clearing it out first. This has stuff in boxes that I haven't opened since we moved in - nearly 8 years ago. So, I'm going to be ruthless! Honest... Oooh look! One of Michelles silver cat earings - oh, and a silver chain. She hasn't even noticed they are gone. Books! Newman and Sproull: "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" Knuth: "The Art Of Computer Programming, Fundamental Algorithms" The complete documentation for Visual C++ Version 1.0 QuickC for Windows original Manual! Microsoft Quick C for DOS manual! And they will have to go to the tip! They are way too heavy to sell on FleaBay - the postage costs would cripple it, and the local charity shops won't want them. How can I chuck this stuff? :((
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
You could use it for winter heating (apart from Knuth, that must stay).
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I'm moving the computers and setting up a office in a room we don't use much, so I'm clearing it out first. This has stuff in boxes that I haven't opened since we moved in - nearly 8 years ago. So, I'm going to be ruthless! Honest... Oooh look! One of Michelles silver cat earings - oh, and a silver chain. She hasn't even noticed they are gone. Books! Newman and Sproull: "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" Knuth: "The Art Of Computer Programming, Fundamental Algorithms" The complete documentation for Visual C++ Version 1.0 QuickC for Windows original Manual! Microsoft Quick C for DOS manual! And they will have to go to the tip! They are way too heavy to sell on FleaBay - the postage costs would cripple it, and the local charity shops won't want them. How can I chuck this stuff? :((
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
If you chuck the Knuth, you'd better not admit it in the Lounge. There are ways to find out your address. ;)
Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions
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Even back then, caffeine was a required ingredient!
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Even back then, caffeine was a required ingredient!
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Local computer user group/club maybe?
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
Are this things still even exists?
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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If you chuck the Knuth, you'd better not admit it in the Lounge. There are ways to find out your address. ;)
Light moves faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright, until you hear them speak. List of common misconceptions
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Are this things still even exists?
There is only one Vera Farmiga and Salma Hayek is her prophet! Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
In the UK they do. A google search for uk:computer user group returns nearly half a billion hits. Whilst admittedly not all of them would be valid, at least 90% of the first few pages are.
Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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The Knuth was my first programming book. "Learning curve" was not a phrase they had invented then... :laugh:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I'm moving the computers and setting up a office in a room we don't use much, so I'm clearing it out first. This has stuff in boxes that I haven't opened since we moved in - nearly 8 years ago. So, I'm going to be ruthless! Honest... Oooh look! One of Michelles silver cat earings - oh, and a silver chain. She hasn't even noticed they are gone. Books! Newman and Sproull: "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" Knuth: "The Art Of Computer Programming, Fundamental Algorithms" The complete documentation for Visual C++ Version 1.0 QuickC for Windows original Manual! Microsoft Quick C for DOS manual! And they will have to go to the tip! They are way too heavy to sell on FleaBay - the postage costs would cripple it, and the local charity shops won't want them. How can I chuck this stuff? :((
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
The last three I would just put in the recycle bins. Period. They are far too technical for products that no longer exist. I still have my copies of Newman and Sproull and Knuth. About a year ago I had to break out the "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" to brush up on my knowledge of polygon clipping.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
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Learning curve[^] - Knuth makes Dwarf Fortress look like a pussy cat... :laugh:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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I'm moving the computers and setting up a office in a room we don't use much, so I'm clearing it out first. This has stuff in boxes that I haven't opened since we moved in - nearly 8 years ago. So, I'm going to be ruthless! Honest... Oooh look! One of Michelles silver cat earings - oh, and a silver chain. She hasn't even noticed they are gone. Books! Newman and Sproull: "Principles of Interactive Computer Graphics" Knuth: "The Art Of Computer Programming, Fundamental Algorithms" The complete documentation for Visual C++ Version 1.0 QuickC for Windows original Manual! Microsoft Quick C for DOS manual! And they will have to go to the tip! They are way too heavy to sell on FleaBay - the postage costs would cripple it, and the local charity shops won't want them. How can I chuck this stuff? :((
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
According to Heisenberg, observing a thing changes it. Does reading history change the past?
Will Rogers never met me.
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According to Heisenberg, observing a thing changes it. Does reading history change the past?
Will Rogers never met me.
No - but writing it does. :sigh: [edit]Typo - I'm all thumbs this evening... OriginalGriff[/edit]
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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