[PLUG] historical stuff

John Meissen john at meissen.org
Tue Oct 18 18:48:32 UTC 2011



I've (almost) accepted the fact that I need to downsize, and I'm faced
with getting rid of >30 years of computing literature. I'm hoping
someone might have some ideas or suggestions.

When I was in college (way too many years ago) I used to enjoy browsing
the CompSci library and reading the journal articles. After I graduated
I really missed that, so I started building my own library. I joined
the ACM (and eventually IEEE) and subscribed to everything that interested
me. I eventually decided it was too expensive, and stopped everything
except the IEEE membership. By now I've accumulated a couple of rather
large bookcases of journals, proceedings, etc.

I'm going to have to put them in the recycle bin if I can't find a home 
for them.

The stuff from the ACM goes back to 1978, and continued up until 1992
(not everything covers the entire period). It includes Communications of 
the ACM as well as conference proceedings and regular publications from
SIGPlan		Programming Languages
SIGArch		Computer Architecture
SIGArt		Artificial Intelligence
SIGSmall	Small Computers
SIGMicro	Microprocessors and Systems
SIGGraphics	Computer Graphics
Journal of the ACM
Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
Transactions on Database Systems

There's also a hefty collection of IEEE Spectrum and IEEE Computing
magazines, the last few years of Creative Computing (David Ahl)
before it went bust, and there may be a bunch of Byte Magazine issues
from the 80's.

It pains me to just throw this all away. 

Regards,

john-







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