Rating: 
Summary: My "Magic Book"
Review: I volunteer two nights a week helping train people to recycle
"old" donated PCs so we can farm them out to people who
cannot afford new ones and to not-for-profit organizations who just
have a basic word processing/e-mail need. Therefore, any given
night I might see ten different PCs varying from a 386 being stripped
of useful parts, to a high end 486 being upgraded for one last cycle
of usefulness, to occasional Pentiums. It goes without saying that
none of them come with any documentation at all, and a lot has changed
in the past 8 - 10 years in the PC world. I got my hands on [a
recent edition] of this book...about a month ago, and it is dog-eared
already. It's saved a fair quantity of old hardware, such as disk
drives, that we would have junked otherwise, simply because we could
find out about them. It's saved many hours of fiddling around in old
BIOS. Its chronology of DOS and Windows even saved some time recently
when I had to say how many years I had worked with particular releases
of software. I call it my "Magic Book", and so do the
people I'm training. When you do what I do, it's almost as valuable
as a nut driver, and probably saves more time.
Rating:
Summary: My "Magic Book"
Review: I volunteer two nights a week helping train people to recycle"old" donated PCs so we can farm them out to people whocannot afford new ones and to not-for-profit organizations who justhave a basic word processing/e-mail need. Therefore, any givennight I might see ten different PCs varying from a 386 being strippedof useful parts, to a high end 486 being upgraded for one last cycleof usefulness, to occasional Pentiums. It goes without saying thatnone of them come with any documentation at all, and a lot has changedin the past 8 - 10 years in the PC world.I got my hands on [arecent edition] of this book...about a month ago, and it is dog-earedalready. It's saved a fair quantity of old hardware, such as diskdrives, that we would have junked otherwise, simply because we couldfind out about them. It's saved many hours of fiddling around in oldBIOS. Its chronology of DOS and Windows even saved some time recentlywhen I had to say how many years I had worked with particular releasesof software.I call it my "Magic Book", and so do thepeople I'm training. When you do what I do, it's almost as valuableas a nut driver, and probably saves more time.
Rating: 
Summary: Sixth edition of Pocket PCRef is available
Review: Pocket PCRef became available in November 1996 and a new 7th edition is scheduled for release in November 1997. The sixth edition ISBN is 1-885071-07-8
Rating:
Summary: Lifesaver for the office!!!
Review: The little shirt pocket book is the handiest thing since the pocket I put it in! It has error codes for different bios, CD-rom specs ,HD types for a lot of different manufaturers. Don't leave your desk without it!!!
Rating:
Summary: Lifesaver for the office!!!
Review: The little shirt pocket book is the handiest thing since the pocket I put it in! It has error codes for different bios, CD-rom specs ,HD types for a lot of different manufaturers. Don't leave your desk without it!!!
Rating:
Summary: You didn't buy it yet?!
Review: This book has just about everything. It has BIOS beep codes, on screen error codes and what they meen, hard drive info, phone numbers to manufacturs, video info, modem info... Just name it. Probably the most useful little book I have ever had.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent for DOS 6.22 and before.
Review: This book is a God-sent for working with DOS 6.22 and before. It unfortunately is VERY outdated for todays Operating Systems. It either needs to be updated in new editions or have a new series started for DOS prompt commands associated with Win95, Win98, and Win NT. I would buy any such upgrade in a heartbeat because this book is so highly detailed and easy to use and understand (in the DOS 6.22 environment).
Rating:
Summary: Excellent for DOS 6.22 and before.
Review: This book is a God-sent for working with DOS 6.22 and before. It unfortunately is VERY outdated for todays Operating Systems. It either needs to be updated in new editions or have a new series started for DOS prompt commands associated with Win95, Win98, and Win NT. I would buy any such upgrade in a heartbeat because this book is so highly detailed and easy to use and understand (in the DOS 6.22 environment).
Rating:
Summary: A great Ref. Book
Review: This book is great for anyone that might need to look up almost anything about a PC, from hard drive configurations to DOS commands. I would really suggest anybody having anything to do with PC support or repair to get this book and keep it handy.
Rating:
Summary: A great Ref. Book
Review: This book is great for anyone that might need to look up almost anything about a PC, from hard drive configurations to DOS commands. I would really suggest anybody having anything to do with PC support or repair to get this book and keep it handy.
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