PC Buyer’s Handbook 1999 Available to Purchase

This bright little book is a delightfully candid layman’s guide to buying PC equipment. The author is an engineer at Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory where he provides computer support. He has been working with computers since the early 1980s. Written in a conversational style, his chapter headings are: Where do I start?; What kind of system?; Desktop system or how to read an ad.; Portable systems; Printers, scanners, and other stuff; Software; Upgrade an old system?; and Buying a system.

“Do you want a PC or a Macintosh? The second [question] is, Do you want a desktop system...