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title = "My old computer books"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-11-14T23:09:00+01:00
categories = ["blog"]
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weight = 2001
image_dir = "blog/images"
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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.
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{{< 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"
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{{< 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"
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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_Member when your knowledge didn't become outdated even before you finished learning anything?_
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