[OFFER] Microsoft Programmer's Library Collections

Merry Christmas!!! In 1988 Microsoft release Microsoft Programming's Library This is an ISO of the Microsoft Programmer's Library. Microsoft Programming's Library contains all the KB articles related to the old Microsoft Languages (Basic, Fortran, C, Pascal, MASM), along with operating system information for OS/2 1.0, OS/2 1.1, OS/2 1.2, Windows 1.01, Windows 2.00 Windows 3.00 and MS-DOS 3.30 also MS-DOS 4.00. Microsoft Programmer's Library release in CD in 1988

Microsoft Programming's Library include Source Code from book Programming Windows By Charles Petzold. Microsoft Programming's Library include Source Code from book Quickbasic Programming Toolbox by John Clark Craig. Microsoft Programming's Library include Source Code from book Inside OS/2 by Microsoft Press.The ISO includes a MS-DOS based program to read the files.

There is no ability to print in Microsoft Programming's Library on Hard Drive.

Microsoft Programming's Library version 1.1a release in 1989 have code sample support Windows 2.xx.

Microsoft Programming's Library version 1.3 release 1991. Microsoft Programming's Library has added the following code for Microsoft Windows 3.00 and OS / 2 1.30.

The Microsoft Programming's Library CD in old High Sierra format which most modern programs do not support.
Emulators like 86box or PCEM are also be mounted and read without problems.
Microsoft Programming's Library also worked on VirtualBox.

Download Links
Microsoft Programming's Library version 1.1a
https://mega.nz/#!pHBGWQzT!ThFeRziqstXB2xMmtDnSVfRwelrolnf49NsyP-rKJmU

Microsoft Programming's Library version 1.3
https://mega.nz/#!5GYGnCxD!MhNgNqQCRPzPcSA-VqZlqrHiZMn95p0DSY6N3y1oAyk

Comments

  • Here's more on that topic (downloads+infos+discussion):
    https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2012/07/05/2133/
    https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/11/13/microsoft-bookshelf-1991/

    The 1.3 you've uploaded and posted picture, is it from archive.org?
    https://archive.org/details/MicrosoftProgramersLibraryV1.3
    If so, it is always nice to tell where it originates from ;)

    Here I have uploaded unpacked 1.3 ISO to browse files in browser:
    https://github.com/spacerace/MPL

  • edited December 2018

    One of the most interesting attributes of this dump is the fact that it's a CD-ROM from the late 1980s, predating the release of the first consumer 1x CD-ROM drives in 1990.

    I understand that ISO 9660 was finalized in 1988, and as such the earliest CD-ROM I've found was dated June 6, 1988 (https://archive.org/details/NASASpaceScienceSamplerV2). I also found some sort of meteorological data CD from later that year, but can't find it on archive.org presently.

    What were the very first industrial CD-ROM drives like? Were they slow or unreliable compared to the units that were around a few years later?

    And it's 552 MB to top it all off, probably like 25-50x the average HDD size at the time, of course discounting all the IBM PC-compatibles without no HDDs at all.

    In any event, it probably beats having hundreds of 5 1/4" floppies to fit all that data.

  • @johnlennon364 said:
    Merry Christmas!!!

    You're welcome?

    lol it's always funny to go looking for something, and either keep on finding your own posts, or other people trying to pass on stuff you found as their own. As a tip, these circles are pretty small and it doesn't take much detective work to find what came from where.

    Eitherway I'm just glad the material isn't dying in obscurity.

  • @sdose said:
    Here's more on that topic (downloads+infos+discussion):
    https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2012/07/05/2133/
    https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2018/11/13/microsoft-bookshelf-1991/

    The 1.3 you've uploaded and posted picture, is it from archive.org?
    https://archive.org/details/MicrosoftProgramersLibraryV1.3
    If so, it is always nice to tell where it originates from ;)

    Yep, lol

    I wasted a few hours looking for good pictures of that thing. In a way it shows that I'm doing a good thing as it was easy to find.

    @sdose said:
    Here I have uploaded unpacked 1.3 ISO to browse files in browser:
    https://github.com/spacerace/MPL

    Here you may want to add these:

    https://vpsland.superglobalmegacorp.com/install/OS2/OS2_1.x/Microsoft_Programmers_Library.7z

    You'll have to deal with my lame 404 page/password thing, but I used a TSR to scrape the text into a plain text file... SO you can actually search/copy/paste this stuff. But it's fantastic. If I wasn't such a slacker, I'd parse it out and make it more of a DB thing or something.

  • @win32 said:
    One of the most interesting attributes of this dump is the fact that it's a CD-ROM from the late 1980s, predating the release of the first consumer 1x CD-ROM drives in 1990.

    Yes. And many of these early CD-ROM's don't read with modern ISO tools, and appear as defective on modern systems. But MSCDEX reads them just find.

    https://archive.org/details/MicrosoftBookshelf1991

    Microsoft Bookshelf of 1991 also suffers the same issues, and it's 1991!

    @win32 said:
    And it's 552 MB to top it all off, probably like 25-50x the average HDD size at the time, of course discounting all the IBM PC-compatibles without no HDDs at all.

    In any event, it probably beats having hundreds of 5 1/4" floppies to fit all that data.

    Without a doubt! It's seemingly trivial today, but in 1991 even having 1 GB of disk space cost an enormous amount of money. I was crazy luck that in 1993 I had a 760MB 5 1/4" full height SCSI disk. It came out of a minicomputer that took up a row of racks in a data centre. And back then it was like infinite storage. But I was lucky I got a refurbed SCSI CD-ROM that had a Trantor T-128 SCSI card, that although being 8bit it could easily drive the single speed CD and the hard disk.

    Heck I remember when the card catalogues were being supplanted with CD-ROM searches, and if you were crazy lucky they also had NY times on CD-ROM with abstracts. That was not only amazing, but I'd imagine crazy expensive. Even at slow single speeds it was infinitely faster then doing the searching by hand.

    I'm hoping to find more of these early hokey reference CD's but they are hard to come by.

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