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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: discounted boooks, was: Nebula Finalists 2015
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 10:38:25 -0800
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<1817895e9062a5e1$61136$406846$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>,
 Michael Benveniste <mhb@murkyether.com> wrote:

> On 1/3/2025 5:59 PM, danny burstein wrote:
> 
> > Roughly the same time frame here.  One of the smart things
> > the Chemical Rubber Company, AKA CRC Publications, did with
> > that book was that... while the yearly new edition was $100
> > or so dollars (and back then that was real money..) they *officially*
> > sold any of the earlier years' copies they still had in stock
> > for that seriously discounted price.
> > 
> > So normal people, like you and me, got last year's edition. WHich
> > was, for 99% of users, every bit as good.
> > 
> > About 20 years ago I realized I hadn't cracked it open in
> > a decade so gave it a solid hug and kiss and donated it to
> > one of hte used book places.  Hopefully it found a good home.
> 
> I still have my 54th Edition (1973-74).  Like you, I bought it at
> the year-old discount while in high school.

I never bought a copy of the CRC handbook; I do have my Father's copy 
(late 1940s edition) which I inherited when he died 15 years ago (along 
with his slide rules - the one I bought 1 year before the introduction 
of the very first hand held Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator was 
better).

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com