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A Simple Guide To Home Computers

YEAR: 1979
ITEM: Book
COMPANY: A&W Publishers, Inc.
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
IN OUR COLLECTION: Yes

Before the acknowledgements page, the writer says, "To my parents for making science accessible, and to Mr. Wizard for keeping it simple." The book has a brief history of computing and decent writeups on the then currently available home computer systems as well as some game systems. It also briefly covers FORTRAN, ASCII, and BASIC.

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