Gregg wrote:

Behold, DougC scribed on tube chassis:

When's the last time any book company printed copies of RDH4?
There's a mid-60's textbook on eBay I've seen. I read people online say
that a UK company did a two-volume set within the last few years, but I
have not found it for sale anywhere, with my casual searching....

There's a 1997 copy floating around, but that publisher has been absorbed
by a school and education publisher and they have completely disowned the
technical stuff.

I actually contacted them about my copy I was distributing, they didn't
even bother replying.

Gregg, do you mean the Newnes/Butterworth-Heinemann 1997 book? (They
are part of Elsevier.) ISBN 0-7506-3635-1.

Both amazon.co.uk and amazon.com know it but I guess it's out of print.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/.../-/0750636351/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg.../-/0750636351/

I got my copy from amazon.co.uk some time ago.

The story as told by this copy:

First published 1934
Second edition 1935
Third edition 1940
Fourth edition 1953
Revised reprint with addenda 1954, 1955, 1957, 1960, 1963, 1967
Reprinted 1997, 1999

Better photo of the book:

http://www9.wind.ne.jp/NoobowSystems...rshandbook.jpg

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Oskari Heinonen * University of Helsinki * Department of Computer Science
* http://www.cs.Helsinki.FI/Oskari.Heinonen/