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+title = "My old computer books"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-11-14T23:09:00+01:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2001
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+Abstract = "The books from my childhood"
+Listening = "The Cure - Songs of a Lost World"
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+
+Recently, I've been to my family home and there, behind other books, were them:
+my old computer books.
+I read them on repeat when I was a little kid, just learning about `nc` and how to break my machine via `autoexec.bat`.
+
+{{< image class="centered" alt="an two color book. Most of it's white, with some black accents." file="sam-na-sam-z-jezykiem-c.jpg" >}}
+Jan Bielicki's "Alone with the C language".
+This one's actually belonged to my mother.
+{{< /image >}}
+
+{{< image class="centered" alt="Cover of an horizontal book. A big title in red occupies most of it. A clipart-style house is on the left." file="z-dosem-w-domu.jpg" >}}
+Paul McFedries' "At home with MS-DOS"
+{{< /image >}}
+
+{{< image class="centered" alt="a yellow book cover. An old CRT sceen with Norton Commander can be seen on it" file="norton-commander-wiecznie-mlody.jpg" >}}
+Piotr Kustra's "Norton Commander 4.0: Forever young"
+{{< /image >}}
+
+None of them are advanced, as they were to introduce me _into_ computers.
+My mother was the only adult person with any computer literacy around me, if we don't count my "Informatics" teacher.
+They sure did their job pretty well if you ask me.
+
+The first one was too advanced for little me, but the other two were very welcoming.
+Authors aimed at Poles in the 90s, who lived in post-USSR country, and were finally able to experience freedom.
+One of it's aspect were the first PC computers which, though crazy expensive, started to be present in most homes.
+
+That's one the reasons I've never seen a Macintosh.
+Most of us had either, a PC or Commodore.
+Lucky ones had Amigas.
+And with them, a new wave of computer related press and books flooded the market.
+
+_Member when your knowledge didn't become outdated even before you finished learning anything?_