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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Buying Pournelle Book
Message-ID: <1745@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 06:54:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  9 06:54:37 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

A friend visiting LA from DC wanted to picked up Jery Pournelle's book on
buying a small computer (for entertaining advice, understanding it might
be somewhat fallible/biased -- and assuming all such books would be the
same but most would be less well written/entertaining).

We tried a couple of computer stores with no luck.   Then tried a discount
paperback book store.  No luck there either, but the clerk recommended we
try a local supermarket.  And sure enough, there it was.  My friend made
somewhat dazed comments about Angeleno specialty bookstores...like Safeway.

Conclusion:  if Pournelle is complaining that computer stores don't stock
his book, he may be right.  But it was offered for sale right next to the
crossword puzzles.

--Lee Gold