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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. No signatures. Some rubbing to corners of wrappers.; [viii], 78 pages. Page dimensions: 209 x 146mm. A fascinating flashback to see how much computer technology has advanced in a few short decades. This book describes computers having 4 Mhz processors, and 24 Mb hard drives. "Micro-Computers, based on one-chip micro-processors, may be no larger than a typewriter + TV screen. Some are so small that they can fold into a brief-case. They typically work with 8-bit data units (bytes). One suitable for business use will cost between $NZ700 and $NZ40,000 including sales tax." - page 11. A single floppy disk drive will add $600-$2000 into the cost of the computer. ; 8vo. Seller Inventory # 12539
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. No signatures. Underlining and marginalia to the Introduction and to the first two chapers. Some tears and chips at corners of dust wrapper and at ends of dust wrapper spine, the largest tears being a couple of 1 1/4" tears at the head of the dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is price clipped. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition. 702 pages. Oatmeal coloured cloth boards with blue cloth spine. Page dimensions: 221 x 143mm. Top page edges dyed blue. "De Beauvoir is best known for 'The Second Sex' (1949), a pioneering examination along existentialist lines of the female condition. Sartre's Hegel-derived model of the struggle between subjective consciousnesses - each seeking to avoid objectification and to be looker rather than looked-at - is adapted to describe male-female relations." - Jane O'Grady in Honderich, Ted (ed.) "The Oxford Companion to Philosophy" (second edition, 2005). ; 8vo. Seller Inventory # 12540