bigtimber

Thanks for this bit of nostalgia. As a veteran user of DEC computers for most of my career, I really enjoyed this despite some of the omissions that others have pointed out. I could also add some additional thoughts to what else has also been mentioned, including LSI-11 which was a micro version of the PDP-ll. I really liked the orthogonal instruction set. My experience goes back to PDP-8 which were all over the place at Lawrence Livermore National Labs; they were using them basically as terminals for accessing the big CDC-7600/CDC-6600 supercomputer complex there. Some side points on operating systems such as RT-11 and peripherals such as RL01/RL02 might also have been interesting. But this was still a lovely bit of memorabilia, so thanks again! ;-) Oh, I almost forgot about the user group DECUS, a treasure trove of all kinds of goodies, including DECUS-C compiler which we used extensively. And of course MACRO-11 was our main workhorse for assembly language programming on the PDP-11 and LSI-11 for many years.

Putting the fox in the chicken coop?

$paywalled??

There were 4 of the then state-of-the-art, fastest in the world, CDC-7600 and CDC-6600 computers installed at Lawrence Livermore Lab (LLL, now LLNL, Lawrence Livermore National Lab) when I worked there during the summer of 1972.

I can't claim to have it on my bookshelf anymore, but DID have the original hardcopy on my bookshelf for many years back in the 70's and early 80's when I was programming some low-level math libraries and needed to refer to some approximation techniques (e.g., Chebyshev for logarithms).

EDIT: oops, just realized that you were referring to a later version of the classic. I was referring to Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of Mathematical Functions with formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables (1964).

IEEE member since 1995; joined because my company paid for it (also joined the IEEE Computer Society, ACM and even APS, American Physical Society, at that time for the same reason.) Continued my IEEE membership at my own expense after retiring because I didn't want to lose my @ieee.org alias that I had used for many years, also wanted to continue to have access to publications and articles of interest. With that said, I would not recommend starting an IEEE membership at your own expense unless you can afford it and want to establish yourself in that community. I think they still require a sponsor for membership.