[sdiy] OTA book on eBay

[Rainer Buchty]

>For me, information such as presented in old, impossible to get
>manuals, technical books, schematics, and catalogues is such
>knowledge, a special kind of "old magic" that nobody can learn
>anymore.

Amen to that... 

For example, tried to get information on how floppy controllers work 
lately? I mean, not just the basic blurb like "magnetic recording" with 
nice pics of elementary magnets, but the hard tech facts (FM vs. MFM, 
GCR, RLL codes). That stuff pretty much vanished from the web.

(OK, meanwhile it might be in the Wikipedia, I didn't check. But back in 
2001 I had big fun finding that stuff...)

Not to mention datasheets of discontinued parts...

>Rainer:
>eyeballing someone = looking at them
>getting eyeballs = getting noticed
>dead prez = "dead presidents", US dollars have presidents' faces on
>them, and all of those presidents are long since dead.

Thanks :)

Rainer