4 Dec
2006
4 Dec
'06
10:15 p.m.
At 8:25 PM -0800 12/4/06, jim stephens wrote:
My favorite was not at a Library book sale, but a Micro
Center some years ago.
They decided to start thinning out books in there book section, which used to
be quite good, and started by marking all the K&R's down to $5.00 each. And
those were the second edition ones. I bought them all, of course.
I vaguely remember the Micro Center in the Washington DC area around
'93, though I was only able to get there once, maybe twice in the
three years I was stationed there. I picked up OS/2 2.0, a couple
books, and a CD-ROM of questionable information (some good classic
computer info on it though). The strange thing is among all the
computer books and magazines, I also found a RPG magazine.
Down here in the Orange county area, the only book
store that had had
technical books of any use was Irvine Science and Technical books, but
they closed their storefront and got some totally different domain name and
went internet, as has OpAmp in LA. So now it is all amazon, i guess, with
no useful place to stroll the aisles.
Sounds like I'm lucky to live in the land of Powells Books, though I
have to avoid going to the main store, or the Technical bookstore out
of fear for my wallet.
Zane
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