Devouring Fungus: Tales of the Computer Age - Softcover

Karla, Jennings

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393307328 ISBN 13: 9780393307320

Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1990

Synopsis

Are you someone who'd use a RAM chip as fertilizer? Do you think that the best way to boot up a computer is with a steel toe? Then The Devouring Fungus is the book for you. Anyone who's ever had anything to do with computers-from the sophisticated hacker to the confused office worker to the unsuspecting parent who finally relented to the kid's demand for a PC-will find something here to chuckle about.

About this title

Synopsis:

This humorous history of the computer offers a series of anecdotes of the way people view, use and misuse them, describes the uses and abuses to which they are put in personal and business life and underlines the way in which they have infiltrated all aspects of life. A typical tale from the book is one that recounts how a hacker in America found that his baby daughter had slipped a slice of processed cheese into his floppy disc sleeve - having watched him all too closely. The author, once completely computer illiterate, is a freelance writer, whose articles have appeared in the "New York Times", "Newsday", "Cosmopolitan" and others.

About the Author:

Karla Jennings lives in Decatur, Georgia, where she is working on a novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc.
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0393307328
• ISBN 13: 9780393307320
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240