Half Price Books was selling this book for $9 and Amazon was at $12. john
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From: "Lawrence Wilkinson" <ljw-cctech_at_ljw.me.uk>
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Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: Desktops then and now (book review)
>A more 'coffee table' type of book is the Taschen one:
>
> http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/books/design/all/facts/02976.htm
>
> Lots of nice photos of mainframes, minis, micros, but concentrates on
> the 'design' (i.e. their appearance). It has a few basic errors but the
> photos make up for it. In particular, the only time I have ever seen a
> fashion model posing with an IBM mainframe (and a 360/30 at that):
>
> http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360/photos/t360-30-4d2.jpg
>
> (Don't get too excited Sellam)
>
> On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 17:06, Arlen Michaels wrote:
>> There's a brief review of "Digital Retro: The Evolution and Design of the
>> Personal Computer" by the British author Gordon Laing (Sybex, 2004) here:
>>
>> http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=57868#
> (review snipped)
>> Arlen Michaels
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> Lawrence Wilkinson lawrence_at_ljw.me.uk
> The IBM 360/30 page http://www.ljw.me.uk/ibm360
>
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