San Francisco: Blue Notes, 1983. 4to, 20 pp. incl. covers, saddle-stapled wraps. Offset printed in blue ink. Single issue of the early personal computing zine, which positions itself on the cover of this issue as being "an informational alternative to the rigors of digesting PC Magazine every month." The zine..... More
Menlo Park, CA: Dymax, 1972. 4to, 63 [1] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Printed on newsprint. Profusely illustrated with line drawings, cartoons, and diagrams. A copy of what we believe to be the true first edition of one of the most influential computer books ever published. Albrecht published this handbook under his..... More
Moers: Editions Aragon Verlag Willi Klauke, 1985. Second printing. 8vo, 130 pp, illustrated wraps. Illustrated with tables, diagrams, and a single photograph. Text in German. Early Hacker guide oriented towards beginners, the dedicated to Jerry Rubin, which begins by printing Cheshire Catalyst's Hacker Hymn (which first appeared in T.A.P.). Includes..... More
Santiago, Dominican Republic: Hypermodern, 1968. 4to, 24 pp, side-stapled. Fourth issue of this far ranging and eccentric little magazine published from the Dominican Republic by a young Allan B. Calhamer, who later would find infamy as the inventor of the game Diplomacy. Just under the covers of this issue alone..... More
New York: Mr. Romance, c. 1960's. 8vo, single sheet folded once to make a 4 pp. booklet. A leaflet advertising a computer dating service based out of New York City, at 1245 Amsterdam Ave, aimed speficially at college students. The booklet states that "MR. ROMANCE began at Columbia University. It..... More
London: East London Section of the London Psychogeographical Association, 1994. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, printed in blue on white paper. A "Bay Area Supplement" to the LPA newsletter, which prints a brief text on Silicon Valley, algorithms, capitalism and control, and which calls for a "Bay Area Rendez-vous" of..... More
Seaside / Salinas, CA: Intersystems Communications, 1987. First edition. 8vo, xiv, 347pp, perfect bound in wraps designed by Heinz Von Foerster. Important work by the radical constructivist, collecting texts by the author divided here into four parts - Language and Semantics, Constructivist Epistemology, and Concepts of Number. Some minor wear..... More
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Amsterdam: Hack-Tic, 1989-93. 8vo, each issue saddle-stapled in wraps. With 2 posters. 23 issues in 15 fascicules [of 16 published]. A nearly complete run, lacking only the last double number, of the first hacker zine published in Amsterdam. It includes the very rare first number, distributed in an edition of..... More
np: Abyss Publications, 1970. First edition. 8vo, 17 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with reproductions of computer printouts. First and only edition of this important, but not widely known publication by the editor of the Something Else Press on the use of computers in conceptual art, specifically involving FORTRAN programming. It..... More
Baltimore: The Hopkins Science Fiction Association, [1975]. 4to, 11 pp, photo-mechanically reproduced on rectos only. Side-stapled. A collection of songs published on the occasion of Balticon 9, with a nicely designed, minimalist cover. An early publication from HopSFA, which was charted the year prior, and which grew out of the..... More
San Luis Rey, CA: Computer Information Exchange, 1979. First edition. Folded tabloid format, printed on newsprint. Illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Ninth issue of the periodical which was published by Bill McLaughlin, of the Computer Information Exchange, and was related to, and shared some of the same contents as the..... More
Palo Alto, CA: Learning is Living, [1971]. First edition. 8vo, 15 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A critique of education by the social activist published 4 years before he became co-founder of the Homebrew Computer Club, arguably the most influential hobbyist group of the 20th century. Moore, who died in an auto..... More
Park Ridge, Illinois: Clapper Publishing Company, 1971. 8vo, 32 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with diagrams and dotted plans, complete with all plans present and not cut out. A handbook devoted to craft projects made from punched cards, described in the foreword as "the computer age scrap." It includes plans for..... More
[San Francisco]: [Nasty Secretary Liberation Front c/o Processed World, [1982]. Paperback. 8vo. Single 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, b/w xerox on peach paper. Fine. In 1982 members of Processed World costumed themselves and formed a picket line outside of the 1982 Office Automation Conference at the Moscone Center in San..... More
[Berkeley?]: nd. 8 1/2 x 11", photo-mecahnically reproduced. Illustrated with a drawing attributed to Arthur, with a date that appears to be 13, likely 2013. A mysterious flyer illustrated with a deturned drawing of the anthropomorphic UC Berkeley mascot Oski the bear, holding a hammer with the anarchy symbol emblazoned..... More
np: [1973]. A cache of 10 items produced in conjunction with the Electric Element, a multi-media performance which was performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford in 1973 by the avant-garde theatrical performance troupe, which included the legendary musican and cybernetic artist Bruce Lacey, who appeared in Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity..... More
New York, Amsterdam, Seattle: The Immediast Underground, 1992. First edition. 12mo, 25 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Superb zine attacking the "ecology of coercion," written by Greg Ruggiero (of the mail art zine Noospapers) and others. We've heard that there was also an interactive version of this pamphlet published for the Macintosh..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1972. First edition. 8vo, 94 pp, illustrated wraps. An unusual novel consisting of a dialog between a detective and an expert on artifial intelligence, concerning machine learning and artificial intellegince - among many other topics of course. The superb cover design was accomplished, according to the text..... More
Woodside, CA: Wireless Digital, 1983. Tabloid format, 24 pp incl. covers. Unbound, folded sheets. A single issue of Jim Warren's legendary computer newsletter, this issue published in July of 1983, including a small announcement for the upcoming August 17th meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club at Stanford, and otherwise largely..... More