This revision both updates and adds information relevant for today's PC Users. It includes major content updates and additional material including expanded coverage of hardware to cover optical scanners, new mother boards designed for PCs and PCXTs, "piggyback" memory boards and 3.5" diskette drives. There are new chapters covering communications equipment including modems and adapter cards and printers, methods of printing, and software compatibility between application programs and printers. The book also has expanded PS/2 coverage. Gilbert Held is the author of the "IBM PS/2 User's Reference Manual" and "DOS Productivity Tips and Tricks".
- ISBN10 0471524522
- ISBN13 9780471524526
- Publish Date 16 January 1991 (first published 1 June 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 30 July 1997
- Publish Country US
- Imprint John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 366
- Language English