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| greysky |
 Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:49 pm |
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Going through my garage, I found a stash of old data books from the 80's and
90's: Burr Brown, TI, National, and others. Considering most of these can
be gotten on CDs today, are these old paper books worth keeping, or should I
recycle them? |
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| Homer J Simpson |
| Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:55 pm |
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"greysky" <greysky@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:ojmNh.107$H_5.47@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net...
Quote: Going through my garage, I found a stash of old data books from the 80's
and 90's: Burr Brown, TI, National, and others. Considering most of these
can be gotten on CDs today, are these old paper books worth keeping, or
should I recycle them?
It is possible that you may have the last copy in existence of one or
another of these.
Can you post a list? |
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| Prajit |
| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:26 am |
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Some times u get some basic information from them..in the new data
book they generally omit those stuffs becuase of the maturity in
technology and also outside lot of information is available...
If they entire stuff is in CD..then I think it's not worth keeping...
but depends on how frequenty you are using those information..
On Mar 25, 1:55 pm, "Homer J Simpson" <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote:
Quote: "greysky" <grey...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:ojmNh.107$H_5.47@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net...
Going through my garage, I found a stash of old data books from the 80's
and 90's: Burr Brown, TI, National, and others. Considering most of these
can be gotten on CDs today, are these old paper books worth keeping, or
should I recycle them?
It is possible that you may have the last copy in existence of one or
another of these.
Can you post a list? |
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| Michael Black |
| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:09 am |
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"greysky" (greysky@sbcglobal.net) writes:
Quote: Going through my garage, I found a stash of old data books from the 80's and
90's: Burr Brown, TI, National, and others. Considering most of these can
be gotten on CDs today, are these old paper books worth keeping, or should I
recycle them?
They are infinitely valuable. Because if you need that datasheet for an
obsolete part, they will likely be the only place to look, unless someone
has scanned in their old datasheets.
Of course, the later they are, the less value they are since they will
still be common.
Michael |
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| Lionel |
| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 11:59 am |
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On 25 Mar 2007 16:09:25 GMT, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)
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Quote: "greysky" (greysky@sbcglobal.net) writes:
Going through my garage, I found a stash of old data books from the 80's and
90's: Burr Brown, TI, National, and others. Considering most of these can
be gotten on CDs today, are these old paper books worth keeping, or should I
recycle them?
They are infinitely valuable. Because if you need that datasheet for an
obsolete part, they will likely be the only place to look, unless someone
has scanned in their old datasheets.
I still use my data books (especially the app-notes books!) that date
back to the late '70s. They're valuable to me because they go back to
when a lot of really popular chips & transistors were brand new on the
market, so they cover strengths, weakenesses, suggested configurations
& app's in a lot more depth than you see in modern documentation.
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| Michael Black |
| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 12:35 pm |
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Lionel (usenet@imagenoir.com) writes:
Quote: On 25 Mar 2007 16:09:25 GMT, et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black)
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"greysky" (greysky@sbcglobal.net) writes:
Going through my garage, I found a stash of old data books from the 80's and
90's: Burr Brown, TI, National, and others. Considering most of these can
be gotten on CDs today, are these old paper books worth keeping, or should I
recycle them?
They are infinitely valuable. Because if you need that datasheet for an
obsolete part, they will likely be the only place to look, unless someone
has scanned in their old datasheets.
I still use my data books (especially the app-notes books!) that date
back to the late '70s. They're valuable to me because they go back to
when a lot of really popular chips & transistors were brand new on the
market, so they cover strengths, weakenesses, suggested configurations
& app's in a lot more depth than you see in modern documentation.
That's the point generally with technical books. When something is
new, the detail is quite good, because they are explaining it as a new
thing to everyone. Later, there is often an assumption that "everyone
knows" so the coverage of that topic gets truncated, to make room for
newer material. Yes, you need the newer material, but that leaves the
older topics lost to the newcomer.
When I see old databooks (and technical books for that matter), given
taht they are likely to be at used book sales and carry a very low
price, I'll generally buy them. My attitude is that I may not need
them now, but if I do, they won't be available at that point unless
I grabe them when I have a chance.
The sad thing is that some of my oldest and most used books are
starting to fall apart.
Michael |
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| Dr. Anton T. Squeegee |
| Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 1:27 pm |
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[Followup posted to sci.electronics.misc, and an E-mail copy was sent to
greysky.]
In article <ojmNh.107$H_5.47@newssvr23.news.prodigy.net>,
greysky@sbcglobal.net (known to some as greysky) scribed...
Quote: Going through my garage, I found a stash of old data books from the 80's and
90's: Burr Brown, TI, National, and others. Considering most of these can
be gotten on CDs today, are these old paper books worth keeping, or should I
recycle them?
If you have not already been convinced by others to keep them,
please give me an idea of how many there are, weight-wise. If it's not a
quantity that would give me a hernia to lift, I would be happy to pay
shipping to collect them.
Alternatively, if you are located in the Bay Area, I can request
that a friend of mine in San Jose pick them up.
Note: Several portions of SBCGlobal address space have been blocked
out of our server due to spam problems. If your E-mail bounces, please
reply here.
Thanks.
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