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