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Information Revolution

December 9, 2010 Holly Bleeding Edge

The Information Revolution The Reference Shelf, v.65, no. 5 1995 Submitter: We’re slowly working our way through the social sciences section, and I hit a set of shelves that had some of the most outdated and useless books I’d seen

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communicate online

Kids and Computers

November 25, 2010 Mary Kelly Bleeding Edge, For the Kids

Communicate Online Rooney 2004 This had a grand total of ZERO circs and it really isn’t that great for content either.  No mention of issues of copyright.  No real discussion of safety other than a comment: “if you see something

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wordstar

Ye Olde Word Processor

November 9, 2010 Holly Bleeding Edge

Beacham’s WordStar Professional 5.0 Handbook Beacham 1989 Submitter: If you can’t remember WordStar, that’s because it was a word processor that was available for DOS and had its last release, which was for Windows 3.0, in 1991. (Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar for

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Easy Dos It

Easy DOS It!

July 28, 2009 Holly Bleeding Edge 18 comments

Easy DOS It! Bauer 1985 There very well might be a reason why someone would want to learn DOS.   The information in this book is readily available without having to make space in the crowded computer section for this ancient

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