Re^4: poll ideas quest 2015

[Arunbear]

What is OGB? I was going to post your poll idea today (and it would be less work to do so if all the options were in one node), but I noticed some links were broken e.g. the Turbo Pascal one, or likely to break soon e.g. the Z80 one.

Also the "K&R" link goes to the 1988 edition, so it may be better to link to Wikipedia where possible. If you fix the links, it can be used in the near future.

[ww]

1305 EDT 20150725:  updated re Turbo-Pascal. Arunbear caught my mistake in the reference, and the 1989 Ed. (now in the list) is closer to [davies original suggestion.

I have made revisions (as much as I could in accord with Arunbear's request at Re^4: poll ideas quest 2015), adding Tux' and davies' suggestions with credits and revising some links:

1. The link for 'z80 Assy Lang' is changed from an eBay address to an Amazon address; no other satisfactory links were found. Perhaps the Amazon listing will last a bit longer than the eBay link
2. See 20150725 update, above: The link for the davies' 1991 ed of 'Turbo Pascal' by Walter Savitch has been changed to a 1993 edition at Amazon. If the pollsters prefer, one may find http://lib.ewubd.edu/vufind/Record/1357/Details or a 1992 example at https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1915444W/Turbo_Pascal_4.0_5.0 a better choice. I found NO OTHER PAGES with a (decent) picture (which is part of the 'gag' for this poll) of the cover of the '91 edition
3. the K&R link has been changed to a wikipedia address

Please ignore the troublesome reference to "OGB" -- Old Gray Bear-- in Re^3: poll ideas quest 2015; that was my mistake and is now irrelevant.

Revised, proposed poll content below the horizontal rule.

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The oldest computer book (still) on my shelves or on my digital media is ...

• A Programming Language, 1962, Iverson
• Programming the 1900 series in COBOL, an ICL training manual from 1974.
• Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, Niklaus Wirth, Prentice Hall, 1976, ISBN 0-13-022418-9
      Suggestion of davies who says "By publication date (1976), ... my second oldest..."
• The C Programming Language, 1978, Kernighan & Ritchie
• System V - Interface definition, 1986, AT&T
      Suggested by Tux
• Z80 Assembly Language Programming, 1979, Leventhal
• TheSOURCE User's Manual, 1979 (Extra points for the brown, 3-ring-binder edition)
• The C Primer, 1983, Hancock & Kreiger
• Interactive Fortran 77, 1984, A Hands on Approach Chivers & Sleightholme
• Turbo-Pascal, 1989, 2nd Edition, Savitch
          Idea provided by davies.
• Perl.1 man page, 1991, Wall (a re-organized web version of the "perl.1" man page
          for PERL version 4: extra points for docs for Perl v. 1, 2 or 3.)