Favorite book

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4 hours ago, Gary from OPA said:

I have found having a book in your hand reading it still allows your brain to retain the information better than reading PDF pages on a monitor or even flipping thru a printed scanned in version.

Totally agree. 

[Gary from OPA]

2 hours ago, FarmerPotato said:

Please let us know your thoughts about it.  Is it possible this book has never been noticed? (Or scanned.)

 

There are quite a few titles for John Grillo in the 1980s, none being offered currently. 

 

Looks like someone scanned it:

 

 

[+FarmerPotato]

4 hours ago, Gary from OPA said:

Looks like someone scanned it:

 

 

Alright! That was fast. 
 

I looked on dl.acm.org for the author John P. Grillo. I think he taught programming to business majors. A short article from 1978 discusses what they are able to do in a semester project.
 

It supposed that (like the author) they will likely need to write some office automation software, on a desktop with BASIC, in a small office or larger multiuser system.  
 

That fits with the reviews of  small machines ca 1978, in which the desktop 990/4 fared poorly compared to the HP in its class. (D.A.T.A. books, Mini-Micro Systems.) 
 

 

[Gary from OPA]

46 minutes ago, FarmerPotato said:

Alright! That was fast. 
 

I looked on dl.acm.org for the author John P. Grillo. I think he taught programming to business majors. A short article from 1978 discusses what they are able to do in a semester project.
 

It supposed that (like the author) they will likely need to write some office automation software, on a desktop with BASIC, in a small office or larger multiuser system.  
 

That fits with the reviews of  small machines ca 1978, in which the desktop 990/4 fared poorly compared to the HP in its class. (D.A.T.A. books, Mini-Micro Systems.) 
 

 

There seems to be at least one more by the same authors available as Jim points out on the hexbus book archive mirror:

 

http://www.hexbus.com/tibooks/misc/introduction-to-graphics-for-the-ti994a.zip

Edited September 24 by Gary from OPA
added screenshot of front cover

[nuxi]

I have both of these (or had, can't find the graphics one right now. Might've lost it in a flood). I quite liked the data structures one in particular. BASIC isn't the easiest or most elegant language to implement anything more complex than an array, but I learned quite a bit from the book as a preteen. I used some of the example code in several projects BitD.

[Gary from OPA]

The wonderful "The 99000 Microprocessor - Architecture, Software, And Interface Techniques" textbook by Avatar Singh & Walter A. Triebel finally arrived, this will help refresh my 55 year old human sponge, so that my brain will be more focused, when I start soon designing new hardware and coding the upgraded TI Operating System.