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Article: Book Demystifies Innards of Computers
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 16, 1994
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The computer revolution that we have all been waiting for has
already happened. Folks who a couple of years ago wouldn't have
known a microchip from a potato chip are now buying computers - for
their small businesses, for their homes, for their kids. And an
interesting phenomenon has tracked this rush to com
puter buying: Many people who now own these machines still haven't a
clue as to how they work.
Well, I have a cure for this ailment that's only going to cost
you $22.95 and perhaps a day's worth of enjoyable reading time. It's
Ron White's excellent book, How Computers Work, published by
Ziff-Davis Press of Emeryville, Calif.
White, who is the executive editor of PC/Computing ...