werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (05/22/84)
<- love it, or let it live ! I fed one of my vices, yesterday, and went on a SHOPPING BINGE. The bookstore sold me, in little time, the following "discoveries": Complete Multilingual Dictionary of Computer Terminology (English French Italian Spanish Portuguese) $75 Passport Books, Trade Imprint of National Textbook Company 4255 West Touhy Avenue Lincolnwood, Ill. 60646-1975, USA Copyright 1984 Published in conjunction with Feutry Editeur, Paris, France. I had been searching for something like this for ages and all over. I will continue to want to find similar dictionaries for other languages. (Ah, the curse to be TOO multilingual, and trying to make a living at it) So, if anyone sees German, Dutch, Swedish, Arab, Japanese, Russian, etc, please let me know !!!! (No, I'm not THAT multilingual (-: ) As I got the above at $60, (I shop at BOOKSTOP for a reason !!!), I grabbed a paperback too for the collection: The New American Computer Dictionary by Kent Porter a SIGNET Book, C 1983 $3.50 "your total guide to Computeres - more than 2000 terms defined in easy-to- understand words, plus a wealth of Illustrations." Riding a wave of equipping myself for questions from any corner, I grabbed: Bantam Fast & Friendly Computer Guides: Business / Office Computers by Gary Gagliardi a BANTAM Book, $2.95, November 1983, 52 topics explained on 52 pages. "The easy-to-understand, quick-to-use comparison system for selecting a business computer to be used in the office for Accounting, Financial Management, Record Keeping, Correspondence and Communication." If someone can't pay my consulting rates, I can keep the relationship friendly with a $3 expense as an answer to the "innocent" question: "You work with computers, what do you advice me to do (without charging me for it) .... Then I went overboard with: The Cartoon Guide to Computer Science by Larry Gonick ( who also wrote: The Cartoon Guide to Genetics) Barnes and Noble Books, 1983, $5.25 My eye next caught: The Computer Phone Book by Mike Caine Plume, 1983, $9.95 "A complete, annotated listing of names and numbers so you can go online with over 400 systems across the country [and Canada and Overseas]. Free Software, Electronic Mail, Computer Games, Consumer Catalogues, Stock Market Reports, Medical Data, Dating Services, and more ...." To receive monthly updates send $20 to the author [in all earnest] Next, I flipped through (and got stuck on): Soul of CP/M - How to use the Hidden Power of your CP/M System by Mitchell Waite & Robert Lafore Howard Sams & Co., 1983 $18.95 "Do you want to learn the universal 'system calls' that make CP/M the most popular operating system in the microcomputer world? Would you like to know how to program in 8080 assembly language? Read this book! using a unique approach, it teaches you BOTH CP/M system calls and 8080 assembly language how at the same time! Your voyage of discovery will take you deep inside CP/M, to it's SOUL. You'll discover how to modify BIOS so your CP/M system will run with different peripherals, how to interface 8080 programs to BASIC, how to access the disk system, and much more. And, it's easy to learn, using our new code-fragment approach with DDT. If you're ready to advance beyond simple running application programs, then this book is for you! " RIGHT, I thought .... To top off the "serious, work-related buying", I got: 16 Bit Microprocessors - A Guide to the most popular 16 bit Micros by Titus & Titus & Baldwin & Hubin & Scanlon Howard Sams & Co, 1981 [too old?] $15.95 "The book will help you understand, evaluate, and compare these chips: 8086, Zilog Z8001 and 8002, DEC LSI-11, TI 9900 and family. Motorola's 68000, NS16000 family. Benchmarks are included, specifications and all" Too OLD - heck, I never more than glance around in it anyway ..., maybe it has some gems ??!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- What I then bought "FOR FUN", may (!!!) follow in another posting. Lunch-time, measure your temperature, take some Cloxacillin, Mortrin, Corteson, so you get better, Werner, and get to leave Florida soooooonn. From the "swollen-foot-bed" of, Werner @ better in bed, via ihnp4!ut-ngp "I'm not a friend of the devil, but I'd defend him in court " (maybe he got some good excuses for all my vices (-: )