How to Develop a Personal Computer Hobby : With Step by Step Instructions in Language You Can Understand

This is a fifty page "How To" book to explain to a Computer illiterate person how to get started with a hobby in Personal Computers. It is a human interest story, written by a forty-eight year old widow who inherited a computer set up & a room full of software that she had absolutely no idea what to do with. One thing she was sure of however, was that she DID want to use it for something! How she set about finding help & instruction, the problems she encountered & how she overcame them. The book is written in everyday language; a chapter is devoted to the basic things that may be purchased, & what is "hardware" & what is "software". Another chapter is devoted to the much asked question "What can a computer do for me?" A large section describes the world of Computer communications; the world of Compuserve & Bulletin Boards...how friends can be made & how contacts can be formed. There is a chapter on how a Computer Hobby can grow into a business & finally, a summary of how the author's life has been expanded by the world of the P.C. The main purpose of this book is to nurture & develop an idea that anyone may have about entering the computer age!Lardner, Jocelyn is the author of 'How to Develop a Personal Computer Hobby : With Step by Step Instructions in Language You Can Understand', published 1991 under ISBN 9780963006301 and ISBN 0963006304.