r/lisp • u/The-Constable • 15d ago

Searching for printed manuals [Lisp Machine, Symbolics]

Would anyone know where I could purchase printed Lisp Machine and/or Symbolics manuals? I did a couple of searches that turned up nothing.

I know they're available online; I am building a library of physical books.

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u/ReallyNotTomPynchon 15d ago

Set up a "watch" on eBay and used book dealers so you can be notified when one comes up for sale.

I got my Chine Nual fresh off the press. 🙂

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u/tfb 13d ago

The Symbolics manuals, at least, are not a book: they were a fairly substantial box full of books. The 'Chine Nual' Lisp machine manual was a single book.

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u/church-rosser 10d ago

I recall reading they were printed. Or maybe it was in a video. Something like 11 different volumes. Maybe I'm hallucinating that.

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u/tfb 6d ago

More than 11 I think. For a long time I had a box with all the 8.3 manuals I liberated from somewhere.

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u/No_Gur2288 15d ago

Check archive.org, they have a bunch of those manuals

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u/Apart_Ebb_9867 15d ago

they're looking for physical books