Problems with IBM 5150 Power

On 2 Aug 2009 at 14:49, Chris M wrote: I edited a number for Osborne McGraw-Hill, but never wanted to write one--too much work compared with other ways of making money. Simply spending a bit of time after supper every day with a manuscript and a pencil was worth a couple of thousand every month. Besides, some of us wrote software--so much more fun than a book. The ironic thing was that many "authors" simply spent their time picking other people's knowledge--they didn't know all that much about the subject themselves. Some truly gargantuan egos involved, too. And those books with a Major Personality on the cover were often not even proofed by the Major Personality, and scarcely anything more than a foreword penned by them. --Chuck