Supremetronic Redux

[Howard Gibson]

On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:29:37 -0400
Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
> I was always of two minds about that...
> 
> On the one hand, I was all, "squeee!   Cheap books that I sorta want!"
> 
> On the other hand, the only way to have a basement full of
> spectacularly discounted books is for that basement of spectacularly
> discounted books to be considered effectively commercially worthless,
> which bodes ill for the continued production of such books.
> 
> And the "tech book" section at the average bookstore has indeed become
> a pale shadow of what it was 15 years ago.

   I recall reading somewhere that people would just go out and indiscriminately buy computer books.  It allowed some mindboggling crap to occupy bookshelves.  I still recall wandering through the Worlds' Biggest Bookstore back in the eighties and seeing a book on BASIC with a graphic on the cover showing the command "LET A=5".  The LET command disappeared shortly after BASIC was conceived.  The book was a piddling twenty years out of date. 

   I have a pile of Commodore C64 books in my basement.  If anyone wants to film a scene of Nazis reading Jewish fiction and advanced physics,  Just don't zoom in and highlight the titles.   

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