99cent store find/missed finds...

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Wed Jan 28 09:08:27 1998

Larry Anderson & Diane Hare wrote:
>
> From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_wco.com>
> Subject: Re: 99 cent store find...
>
> > 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.

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.
Received on Wed Jan 28 1998 - 09:08:27 GMT

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