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In article <RInnf.7630$iz3.7254@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, dave-ng@dgmm.net wrote:
>Sometime on Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:33:28 +0000, R Flowers scribbled:
>> "DaveG" <dave-ng@nospam.tld> wrote in message 
>> news:bLlnf.7536$iz3.1789@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>
>>> An interesting read is...
>>>
>>> The Difference Engine [by] Sterling and Gibson
>>> http://www.sfwriter.com/brdiffer.htm
>> 
>> I have read the above. It was hard going for me, but I loved the subject 
>> matter.
>> 
>> Here's another book I remember (but no longer have) which ties together the 
>> Difference Engine, BASIC programming, and Sherlock Holmes!
>> 
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0006366295/qid=1134423004/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/1
04-7225637-0114355?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 
>> 
>> The book is in story form. Holmes and Watson solve crimes with the aid of 
>> the computer, which is programmed in the BASIC language, somehow. I guess 
>> that was one of Babbage's add ons. :)
>
>Hmmm...intersting price differential ;-)
>http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/026-8621968-4795611

Couldn't go directly to that link.  Went to www.amazon.co.uk and 
searched for "Elementary BASIC John H Watson" which worked ok.

>It continues to amaze me how many companies seem to think the UK� is
>approx. equal to the US$  I might just order it anyway though.  Thanks.

The typical conversion USD to AUD that we suffer here in Oz is 
something like nominal currency conversion with 40% added (or maybe 
it's the other way around :).  But I take your point about equating 
the quid to the dollar! :-)

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Cheers, Phred.

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