Early 80's electronic/computer design books

[Randy Dawson]

Here are a few I like:

TTL Cookbook
Donald E. Lancaster 
ISBN: 0672210355

Microprocessor Interfacing Techniques
Rodnay Zaks 
ISBN: 0895880296

Programming the 6502
Rodnay Zaks
ISBN: 0895881357 

And then there is the faster stuff:

Bit-slice Microprocessor Design
ISBN: 0070417814 / 0-07-041781-4 

Bit Slice Design: Contollers and ALUs
Donnamaie E.  White
ISBN 0-8240-7103-4

The Architecture of Supercomputers: Titan, a Case Study
ISBN-13: 978-0126430608

Enjoy,

Randy

> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:26:58 -0400
> From: keithvz at verizon.net
> To: 
> Subject: Early 80's electronic/computer design books
> 
> I'm interested to learn the titles of some standard reference books on 
> electronic and microcomputer design from the early 1980's.  I've been 
> reverse engineering many aspects of the Commodore Amiga. While I have a 
> decent library of Amiga books, I'd like to expand the collection to 
> include the "de facto standard" reference texts of the day --- to give 
> me more of an insight into the minds of the designers.
> 
> I've read some "history of the amiga" columns, "Life on the edge", 
> various interviews and so on.
> 
> If you could go back, what books would you find on the bookshelves of 
> these engineers?  If you graduated college or a technical school in 
> 1980, what were the popular reference texts used?
> 
> 68000 reference books?
> 6800 reference books?
> standard information on bus arbitration, or memory controllers, or maybe 
> LSI chip layout?
> standard OS design practices?
> 
> I know I'm all over the place.
> 
> I've started playing with FPGA's and while I'm wholly unqualified to be 
> doing so, I'm enjoying it --- but would like to understand how this 
> stuff was done prior to the modern age.  It's like learning the command 
> line first, so that when the gui-front end comes, you know what's 
> happening in the back.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Keith
> 
> P.S. I'd almost be willing to bet there is one or two books called 
> "contemporary microcomputer design" or "contemporary electronic design" 
> both with a copyright date of 1980.  I could be wrong. :)

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