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Microsoft Windows & MS-DOS 6 User's Guide
This is a 7 3/8" x 9", softcover book, dated 1993, with 415 pages, and is titled Microsoft Windows & MS-DOS 6 User's Guide, Operating Systems plus Enhanced Tools. This book originally came with a new PC.
415 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1993
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September 10, 2011
In late 1994 I was laid off from my position as an assistant dean at Loyola University Chicago. I wasn't alone. Hundreds also lost their jobs and soon thereafter my academic division of the university was abolished. Having thought I'd be there forever, the lay-off was quite a shock, though colleagues were confident I'd be rehired, possibly to a superior position. This didn't happen. Indeed, nothing did. I applied for dozens of comparable positions at every higher educational institution in the area, for scores of inferior ones, for hundreds of roughly related jobs etc. etc. Matters grew desperate. My wife had divorced me not long before, an amicable separation which had emptied my savings and which forced me to liquidate my 401k. Dispairing of being hired by anyone for anything approaching a real, full-time job, I began considering alternatives.
One that came to mind was to work independently as a computer repair person. I'd had a PC since the first Commodores in the early eighties, had purchased an early 286 PC soon after they became available and had generally kept up with hardware and software advances in the PC world both at work and at home. I knew how to install parts, taught myself how to assemble a whole computer from parts and started collecting used machines, parts and peripherals. Fixing the broken ones, I ended up with a basement containing as many as one hundred working computers.
This was all well and good. I no longer had to purchase anything. But I seemed pretty incapable of selling anything myself, either equipment or services. Such persons who seemed interested or needy were poor, so I'd just give them stuff. Meanwhile prices were dropping. It was becoming increasingly rational to replace machines which were out-of-date or out-of-order with new ones rather than bothering to perform repairs or upgrades. My own interest in keeping up with technical developments declined as my collections of equipment and documentation grew.
This manual was one of very many I read early on, coming, as I recall, bundled with a number of 486 machines. There may be twenty copies of it on a shelf downstairs.
One that came to mind was to work independently as a computer repair person. I'd had a PC since the first Commodores in the early eighties, had purchased an early 286 PC soon after they became available and had generally kept up with hardware and software advances in the PC world both at work and at home. I knew how to install parts, taught myself how to assemble a whole computer from parts and started collecting used machines, parts and peripherals. Fixing the broken ones, I ended up with a basement containing as many as one hundred working computers.
This was all well and good. I no longer had to purchase anything. But I seemed pretty incapable of selling anything myself, either equipment or services. Such persons who seemed interested or needy were poor, so I'd just give them stuff. Meanwhile prices were dropping. It was becoming increasingly rational to replace machines which were out-of-date or out-of-order with new ones rather than bothering to perform repairs or upgrades. My own interest in keeping up with technical developments declined as my collections of equipment and documentation grew.
This manual was one of very many I read early on, coming, as I recall, bundled with a number of 486 machines. There may be twenty copies of it on a shelf downstairs.
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