25 Apr
1999
25 Apr
'99
2:31 p.m.
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Phil Guerney wrote:
The good news was that I found amongst the
"sets" (encyclopedias etc) a full
set (I think, 22 volumes anyway) of the Time-Life series Understanding
22 volumes? The complete set is only 7 volumes.
Computers. Lots of good computer history and pictures
- but I would be
interested if anyone has any criticism of the facts presented in any of the
articles in that series - they seem authoritative enough, but then some of
the people on this list know more than the usual sources that Time-Life
writers would have used.
They're good enough for teaching the complete neophyte the basics of
computer science.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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