Scanning the shelves:

1965: "a Pelican Original" A524: 

Electronic Computers
S.H.Hollingdale and G.C.Tootill
1965

Programming RPG RPG II
Harice Seeds
1971

Algol 68
a first and second course
Andrew D. McGettrick
1978

The Architecture of Digital Computers
R.G. Garside
1980

Structured Computer Organisation (second ed.)
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
1984

Several Oracle 6 (1988) manuals

And so on and so forth :)

For some of my books, when I squint at them for just a bit longer than a second, I feel again the joy of reading them, understanding them, long ago.

In reply to Re: The oldest computer book still on my shelves (or on my digital media) is ... by erix
in thread The oldest computer book still on my shelves (or on my digital media) is ... by ww

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