Hello friends, Colin notes: > His beginners guide to DOS (or whatever it was called) saved my sanity > when I first started using a PC. It had a nice chatty, friendly > conversational tone, a bit like 'Catcher', maybe it influenced Norton's > style when he came to write his computer book! ["Honey, where's the typewriter?... you know the *typewriter*!.. the garage?... I know it's late but I've got this great idea and all..."] "The Hacker in the Rye" You probably want to know all about the bits, bytes, sectors and interupt vectors, and all that Bill Gates kind of salade... ------------- all the best, Mattis