Re: Eckert - Faster, Faster; books in general

2016-06-20 Thread Grumpyx
Can read it online: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000476266 On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:28 PM, Brian Walenz wrote: > Is there an electronic copy of this floating around? My (ex-library) copy > is missing all of chapter 11, "What is there to calculate?. (And the last > page of the previo

Re: Eckert - Faster, Faster; books in general

2016-06-17 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Brian Walenz > My (ex-library) copy is missing all of chapter 11, "What is there to > calculate?. (And the last page of the previous chapter). The pages > weren't ripped out, they were missing when it was bound. Very odd. My copy is complete, so if you can't otherwise loca

Re: Eckert - Faster, Faster; books in general

2016-06-16 Thread Pontus Pihlgren
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 09:53:57PM -0400, Toby Thain wrote: > On 2016-06-16 9:28 PM, Brian Walenz wrote: > >... > > > >Just to make any discussion a bit more interesting, what would you suggest > >along similar lines? The two giant books on IBM (detailing "pre-360", and > >"360") were quite fun to

Re: Eckert - Faster, Faster; books in general

2016-06-16 Thread Toby Thain
On 2016-06-16 9:28 PM, Brian Walenz wrote: ... Just to make any discussion a bit more interesting, what would you suggest along similar lines? The two giant books on IBM (detailing "pre-360", and "360") were quite fun too. "A Few Good Men From Univac", Lundstrom, MIT Press, is enjoyable but

Eckert - Faster, Faster; books in general

2016-06-16 Thread Brian Walenz
Is there an electronic copy of this floating around? My (ex-library) copy is missing all of chapter 11, "What is there to calculate?. (And the last page of the previous chapter). The pages weren't ripped out, they were missing when it was bound. Very annoying, I enjoyed the book right up until