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Computer Text Books?

  • 23-05-2005 8:53pm
    #1
    JackKelly
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    Well, i was looking to get a few books that have the theory/hardware/workings/history of computers all in one. Any ideas? Maybe some college text books or something?


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  • #2
    Cynet
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    theres too many to mention check out any good book store on the net!


  • #3
    damnyanks
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    Also ebay


  • #4
    sceptre
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    TimAy wrote:
    Well, i was looking to get a few books that have the theory/hardware/workings/history of computers all in one. Any ideas? Maybe some college text books or something?
    I'd recommend Robert Cringely's Accidental Empires for the history and gossip. It only runs up to the early-mid 1990s but nothing interesting's happened since then anyway (apart from that web thing all the kids are talking about). Informative and funny (and probably less than a tenner).

    As for the other stuff, perhaps something by Andrew Tanenbaum (Structured Computer Organization I suppose). Or Neil Dale's Computer Science Illuminated, it's a little less technical than Tanenbaum's effort but nowhere near as good.


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