[GreenKeys] If you thought ebay prices were ridiculous

[John Lawson]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, jhhaynes at earthlink.net wrote:

> for $15,600.  A Bell Labs monograph with a Shannon paper went for $9,000.
> These are things that should be in any good engineering library.


   Makes me wonder (a bit) what my complete set of the BSTJs from #1 (1921) 
to #23 (1943) is worth.  Has all of that - has Nyquist's paper, and it's 
famous appendix ("Certain Factors Affecting Telegraph Speed) now known as 
'Nyquist's Theorem') - all of Harald Bode's early work, E.C. Wente, Harry 
F. Olson... so much of the foundations of our technology came from Bell 
Labs - and damn near all of the early advances in radio communications. 
Some of it sure is amazing reading.

   Not that I'm much interested in selling. Trade for 100 acres of Montana 
forest with a mountain QTH in the middle of it - hmmm, maybe...

  Cheers

John  KB6SCO