Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!barryg 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 Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.1745 Posted: Sat Feb 9 06:54:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 06:29:03 EST References: <801@sjuvax.UUCP> Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica Lines: 15 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