28 Jan
1998
28 Jan
'98
1:08 a.m.
Larry Anderson & Diane Hare wrote:
From: Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com>
Subject: Re: 99 cent store find...
TAB Books. Without doubt the worst publisher in history. The
poor construction was the least of it. Their typesetter often
screwed up things like the punctuation in program listings.
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Every once in a while you actually find something
cool at those places.
There is a 99 cent clearance store (same chain as the one you went to
Larry) near me where I found a bunch of mid 80s computer programming books
(all in a series). The titles were like '6502 Assembly Language
Programming' and 'Z-80 Assembly Language Programming', 'FORTH', some
others.
Were those those thinnish hardback editions... I have come across
PILOT, FORTH, and TRS-80 Graphics... No 6502 Assembly though, better
check there again...
A couple years back I bought a couple 64 games books from another
discount store, I could easily tell why they were so cheap, some had
doubled or missing pages, or pages upside-down... oops.