30 May
2005
30 May
'05
9:59 a.m.
On Sun, 29 May 2005, Michael Holley wrote:
This is from Blue Magic by James Chposky and Ted
Leonsis.(1988) ISBN
0-8160-13910-8
The book has a few technical errors, they mix-up 8080 and 8086 chips number
in one chapter. The refer to the modem guy as Dennis Glayes (Hayes). In this
chapter they refer to a 65 volt power supply (should be watt). The flow of
the book tells how the project was kicked off in August 1980 and you could
buy one in the store in August 1981.
This is completely unacceptable tripe. If an author can't get simple,
well-known, basic details like this correct then as far as I'm concerned,
the rest of the book is crap and may as well be run through the shredder.
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