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Article #734Re: The Automated Factory Handbook
From: Tom von Alten
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 20:05
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 1990 20:05
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> In general, all TAB books are lousy. They seem consistently to
> contain vast amounts of filler material and very little meat. They
> usually read as if someone collected whatever information was easily
> available on the subject and reworked it just enough to avoid
> plagarism problems.
To avoid repeating this "sweeping generalization," let me insert
``I've seen'' after ``all TAB books'' before I second this statement.
Yeah, there may be some good ones out there, but the last one I bought
unseen was so bad I resolved to automatically reject TAB published books.
Don't buy books based on publisher hype! Patronize your local bookstore!
"One unhappy customer = 100 satisfied ones for referral output."
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Tom von Alten email: alien@hpdmlad.boi.hp.com
Hewlett-Packard Disk Mechanisms Division
Opinions completely personal, of course.
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