Dr. Dobb's Journal

[Chris Savage]

Some useful information.

Volume 1

Volume 3

[granz]

In my last assignment in the Air Force in 1986, I worked on a TriTAC (Tri-Branch TACtical Communication) telephone switching system. Because all the branches (Army, Navy and Air Force) were using the switch, the repair school was held at the Army's Fort Gordon, near August, GA. The Air Force calls its communications HQ AFCC (Air Force Communications Command,) while the Army calls its communications HQ Signal Corp, and it's headquartered at Ft. Gordon. The main HQ building on Ft. Gordon is was called Signal Tower. (It is with great sadness that I found out that Signal Tower is no longer with us - https://www.army.mil/article/265243/signal_corps_transformation_and_progress_continue.)

Any way, in the basement of Signal Tower was one of the biggest, and best, technical libraries that I have ever seen. I spent many hours perusing the stacks there. One of my favorite was the bound volumes of Dr. Dobb's. If I remember right, there were six volumes covering the entire first six years of DDJ publications. I almost wished that I could take the entire set home.

Now, of course, I do have all of the beginning issues of DDJ, along with the People's Computer Company newsletter about Tiny BASIC (reproduced in the link Chris gave above.) It is great fun to browse through those, remembering those times - although I was using a full BASIC at that time. 

[Chris Savage]

I will admit that I had forgotten about DDJ until I saw it posted on Instagram or Bluesky or some social stream. I looked up the two volumes that were listed and posted here so I can later go back and read. There's Z80 code in there.

[granz]

I will admit that I had forgotten about DDJ until I saw it posted on Instagram or Bluesky or some social stream. I looked up the two volumes that were listed and posted here so I can later go back and read. There's Z80 code in there.

A noble cause sir! And, so for the sake of posterity:

• https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01.pdf
• https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_02_201803/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_02.pdf
• https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_03/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_03.pdf
• https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_04_201803/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_04.pdf
• https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_05_201803/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_05.pdf
• https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_06/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_06.pdf
• https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_07_201803/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_07.pdf
• https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_08/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_08.pdf
• https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_09/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_09.pdf

These were collected from:
https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal?and%5B%5D=creator%3A%22people%27s+computer+company%22

[Chris Savage]

Is there a volume 2?

[granz]

Yes, like I said, the Signal Tower library had (at least) six volumes in 1986. The first nine are linked above.

[Chris Savage]

Yes, like I said, the Signal Tower library had (at least) six volumes in 1986. The first nine are linked above.

There's no volume 2. That's one of the ones I couldn't find. Volume one is listed twice.

[granz]

Oops! I goofed. Volume 2 (listed in the last link of my above post) was linked wrong (Volume 1 was listed twice.) The correct link is:

https://archive.org/download/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_02_201803/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_02.pdf

Sorry about that.

[Chris Savage]

Okay, these are something I will take occasion to go through. Thanks for sharing. Having them here will make it easy to get to these from anywhere.