Customer Review: Stan Veit has brought his personal observations to this wonderful book covering the early years of personal computing. Veit is a microcomputer pioneer, having opened one of the first computer stores in the nation (Computer Mart in NYC) and having been editor of Computer Shopper, a magazine that, in... more info
Customer Review: So short a time. Seems like yesterday when Jobs and Wozniak kicked off Apple Computer in 1977. Or, just two years earlier, when Gates and Allen started Microsoft in New Mexico, before moving it to Seattle. The field has come so far. Now larger than mainframes. And Microsoft and Intel having larger... more info
Customer Review: I've been wanting to read What the Doormouse said since it came out, and finally got the chance to read it this week. I was disappointed, although now I have a lot of other books & videos to dig into as a result of reading this book. Markoff's thesis, that the 1960s psychadelic subculture... more info
Customer Review: the book is a good book, but this is not what i ordered and had the church order 25 of them and they all came wrong. a day before the graduation of our computer class, i checked the box and it was nothing like we ordered. they said we would get the 8-in-1 with the new Vista information. we had to... more info
Customer Review: Have not seen the TV movie based on this book -- and maybe won't, since another reviewer described it as "lame" -- but I enjoyed the book greatly. Like Levy's "Insanely Great" and "Hackers," Laing's "Digital Retro," Littman's "The Fugitive Game," Markoff's "Takedown," and many others, this book... more info
Customer Review: This book does not use c-like/c++ but true c++. It begins with Vec3D class hiding private menbers. I learn many things of objective astronomical calc from this book.
Customer Review: This book is a walk down memory lane. My first computer was a TI-99/4A computer. I still have it plus some other older computers. It has great information; especially, for those wanting ideas for a mini-itx project (a 'retro' pc).
Customer Review: This is the book that will take you from 0 MPH to 60 MPH in the computer world. If you know nothing or very little and are afraid to use your machine you need this book it will talk you through everything you need to know. No crazy jargon or assumptions- this is step by step computer basics. A +