This may or may not be what the original poster had in mind:
http://www.acm.org/classics

If it isn't, could somebody provide a link, please?
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I went to Amazon.com and searched "Books" for "classics in software".
The search results (the first 10 books), every single one of them were
"Out of Print--Limited Availability" except for the last one -- "Not yet released."

Somehow I find this disturbing.

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Maybe the EdYourdon book?

http://www.yourdon.com/books/coolbooks/notes/classics.html

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/103-9593290-0243009 (out of print; used)

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My grandfather recently gave me a copy of the book
_Classics in Software Engineering_ edited by Edward Nash Yourdon, copyright 1979.
-- DavidCary

Right on the copyright page it says

"This book was set in Times Roman by YOURDON Press, using a PDP-11/45 running under the UNIX operating system."

No doubt using troff.
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