Old programming/computer manuals - any use?

ChrisK....._3

Old software on any media type (even old betamax tape) is never going to be replaced, and that's why it is rapidly becoming collectable so I would check out out on Ebay and sit on it until the price is right

stator

Stick the books on Gumtree. Someone local might pick them up.

droopsnoot

VoucherMan wrote: »

Designing with web standards - Jeffrey Zeldman-2003

I've got a copy of that somewhere, was thinking of that as a more recent book though it's out of date now as CSS3 and HTML5 have replaced the stuff taught in it, and for all I know may be on the way out themselves. I also have a pile of books on programming Symbian mobile phones that I can't quite bring myself to throw out, even though the Symbian platform is now effectively dead. I'll send them to Oxfam, that'll teach them.

I think the floppies are probably no use - production-grade floppies used for software distribution didn't tend to cope with being re-used, so even if they were HD and someone wanted some, unless they were branded they probably won't be much use. And I believe that being hard plastic outers, they can't be recycled.

VoucherMan

I managed to get the PC up & running. Definitely not a museum piece.
Windows ME, with a 30GB hard drive & 500MB of RAM. Intel Celeron 300MHz processor.

Talking to some of the I.T. guys at work today, and one of them said to take the C++ books in & they'd have a look at them. I hadn't realised quite how old they are. I found the receipt in amongst other paperwork, dated 1993.

Neil_Jones

Windows ME dates the machine then to 2000 as that version of Windows was only out for about a year between the successful Windows 98 (SE at least, not so much the original) and the more successful Windows XP. Windows ME had a major memory leak problem and was just, well, crap really.