Which book was your favourite?
Which is your favorite 70-80s computer book?
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or should I say 8 bit book?.
While reading the "Programmers don't read books" thread just come to my mind those really nice days where computer books where an extremely useful source of information. One of my favourites mentioned in the thread was:
BASIC Computer games by David Ahl
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#2I spent an unbelievable number of hours with William Barden's books on the Z-80. One of them completely fell apart. I loved that CPU. It was the first CPU I ever met.
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#3The Ahl was a classic-- I had the DEC edition-- but I also have fond memories of Adam Osborne's "Introduction to Microcomputers".
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#4i had one that taught 4 (??) basic games on the c64 and spectrum. loved it. thinking about it, that's how i learnt to program. unfortunately i think i might have lent it to someone that didn't use it and didn't return it... :(
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#5Two books if that's permitted:
1. "Smalltalk-80 The Languange and its Implementation" - They eventually dropped the implementation chapters from the book, but you can still get the original edition used on Amazon if you're curious as to how Smalltalk was implemented (http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0201113716/ref=dp_olp...). I'm surprised at how cheap they are, as the book is considered a collector's item.
2. "Computer Lib" by Ted Nelson (http://www.digibarn.com/collections/books/computer-lib/)
And, as a bonus, the TRS-80 Model I Users Manual. I still remember the first "program" the book taught me:
10 PRINT "HEY MA, IT WORKS!"
20 END
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#6"Machine language for the Commodore 64" by Jim Butterfield
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#7I'm too young to play... :(
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#8Well books maybe not, but I just LOVED reading old ANTIC magazines.
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#9Amiga hardware reference manual (Addison Wesley), BYTE magazines,
Norton's guide to 8086 assembly language
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#10SICP, of course. Is this a trick question?
Oh, 8-bit. The 6809E reference manual. Motorola sent it to me for free when I wrote asking where I could buy it.