OT: Looking for PC Secrets book diskettes

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I got this book from a used bookstore but it is missing it's enclosed
diskettes. Does someone have a copy and can email the diskettes contents in
Zip form?

PC Secrets
Info Worlds Technical books
IDG Books
by Caroline M. Halliday
1992 1st edition (I assume this)

Two diskettes 5.25" 1.2 mb format

I would appreciate any help in this.

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rcm said:
I got this book from a used bookstore but it is missing it's enclosed
diskettes. Does someone have a copy and can email the diskettes
contents in Zip form?

PC Secrets
Info Worlds Technical books
IDG Books
by Caroline M. Halliday
1992 1st edition (I assume this)

Two diskettes 5.25" 1.2 mb format
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I would suspect the secrets of personal computer architecture that was hot
in 1992 are readily available now. The magnetic image data on an eleven year
old 5.25 disk is liable to have faded to oblivion.

Most of these bundled disks carried little DOS utilities which could
possibly be found now in www.Simtel.net and suchlike. Check the Appendix
list in the book and do a Google search for each of the .EXE or .COM
filenames, they are probably in an ancient Dos archive.

Best of luck in your quest.
Regds
Trevor
 
I just want to get the disks to complete the book. I posted a similar
request 3-4 weeks ago for another book (DOS Power Tools) and got many
replies including one fellow who had the book and went to the trouble of
installing an old 5.25 drive to read the disks and email them to me. I have
since forwarded those zip files to 2 other people who wanted them. In
addition, someone want the 1st edit book disks which I read on my 5.25
drive.

Mostly for nostalgia, I have a collection of older books that I bought at
the time in the 80's and 90's.

By the way, old 5.25" disks are still very much readable as I have copied
all my disks to images on a harddisk in case they fade or become unreadable.
No problems to date reading any of the disks.
 
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