Re: Old catalogues -- worth keeping?
Firstly these are catalogues, not databooks. I have about 18 feet of databooks (mostly too modern for this forum -- ICs...) and I am certainly keeping those. Although of course some catalogues, like the older Maplin ones, did include outline data on the ICs they sold.
I also have a reasonable collection of TRS-80 home computers (M1, M3, M4, Coco2, Coco 3, M100) so I find Tandy catalogues very interesting to see what peripherals and software they sold for each model. I guess in general such catalogues form a historical record of companies that once supplied the likes of us, what was available and when, and so on.
I think you've all convinced me to keep them, at least while I sitll have space. If I do need to re-home them, I will certainly offer them here before they hit the recycling box!
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