[sdiy] Engineering/Computer Books Cleanup

[Happy Harry]

Thanks for the confession Jim....

Hi... I'm Harry and I'm a compulsive data book collector...

I CAN'T throw them out... as soon as I do I NEED that missing
data sheet.

H^)  harry (still mourning the loss of our company library... 40 years
of useful data... now landfill!)  OTOH its fun to tell the purchasing guys 
"Sorry... I can't help you at all. All the data books are gone so I can't 
identify what made the original engineer specify that part...what unique 
characteristics the circuits rely on. Perhaps I should spend the next month 
re-engineering the product... NO ? OK..so sorry again..."

PS. can you :cc my wife... especially the part about the "books on the 
floor..." ?


>From: Jim Patchell <patchell at silcom.com>
>To: synthdiy <synth-diy at node12b53.a2000.nl>
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Engineering/Computer Books Cleanup
>Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 06:55:15 -0800
>
>     Bad Synth-DIYer...bad...bad.....
>
>     Well, it is too late now, you listed them.  The very few times I
>have gotten rid of a book, I have been sorry.  Even my old data books
>that have been disposed of.  Although, I can sympathize.....I have a
>HUGE book shelf (12 feet by 7 feet) and a smaller one (3 feet by 7
>feet), and both are overflowing with books......I've got books on the
>floor, books on the couch....
>
>     -Jim
>
>BrightBoy wrote:
>
> > I'm cleaning up my personal library of engineering books I've
> > accumulated over the years:
> >
> > cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=bright-boy
> >
> > More to come....
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jeff
>

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