[Coco] Ran across an interesting book today...

Steve Ostrom smostrom at mn.rr.com
Wed Mar 29 18:35:49 EST 2006


Boisy, thanks for the tip !!

Bought one from half.com a few minutes ago for less than $5 total, 
including shipping.

-- Steve --


Boisy Pitre wrote:

> Man I love the library here on the UL campus!  Every day I spend time  
> here working on projects or class work.  To take a break, I get up,  
> walk around and peruse the many books in the computer sciences and  
> engineering section on the second floor.  They've got everything from  
> all back issues of 80 micro (in nice binding) to Byte magazine and  
> others.  I get a kick out of thumbing through the Family Computing  
> back issues and seeing the ads for the CoCo 3.
>
> Today, one book caught my eye: "What Every Engineer Should Know About  
> Microcomputer Systems Design and Debugging" by Bill Wray and Bill  
> Crawford, two Motorola engineers.  This book discusses the 6809  
> exclusively and really goes into some significant detail on issues  
> encountered when building a system around the microprocessor.  The  
> book is a bit dated (1984) but may have some applicability to what is  
> going on with Mark's work and the interest it has created here on the  
> list.
>
> If anyone is interested, the ISBN is 0-8247-7160-5 and its available  
> used on amazon.com.
>
> Regards,
> Boisy
>
>




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