>On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>On Behalf Of >> >Priscilla Oppenheimer >> >Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 11:28 AM >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Subject: Re: LLC Type 2 [7:8262] >> > >> >VMS books were orange, as I recall!? >> >> Yes, and I still have a shelf full of them. Why not get rid of them? > >Orange? Hmm, ISTR a grey wall... Are you thinking of VMS5 or OpenVMS, >maybe? :-) VMS 4, mostly. This was 1980 or so. Yes, there were computers then. My office and library tend to be a mess. But it's often hard to explain to an administrator or organizer that wants to "help" me that old journals and manuals can have very real value. The seminal paper in structured programming, Dijkstra's "Go To Considered Harmful," dates to 1968. I still use medical journals over 10 years old. My pharmacology textbooks often suggest consulting an earlier edition for details on drugs rarely used now. Admittedly, I cherish a 1934 book called "Modern Office and General Practice," simply to remind me how far we have progressed. Essentially, EVERYTHING in it is wrong. A few of my computer science materials are simply there for historical value, like the FORTRAN manual for the IBM 709. This wasn't called FORTRAN I because it was too early to consider there ever might be a FORTRAN II. I certainly saved my own publications, even if they go back to the mid-70s. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=8827&t=8262 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
