Comment by burnt-resistor

In the 80's and 90's, I learned on the evil cousin, the PC, by spending all of my money on overpriced hardware reference books at Computer Literacy Bookshop of Santa Clara. Being a broke, car-less high school student, it was perhaps the only time I ever used VTA light rail from Blossom Valley.

Examples:

- The Programmer's PC Sourcebook 155615321X

- The Undocumented PC 0201622777

- PC Intern: The Encyclopedia of System Programming 1557553041

Coupled with Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++, until I could afford Borland C++ 3.1 by virtue of getting a job at Egghead Software. :D "Stack Overflow" was the 4 other people in the under-resourced, purposefully (un)managed high school computer lab run by the wisdom of one Dr. Richard Thaw. It had awful PS/2 model 25's and 30's that were an upgrade from discarded PCjr's. It did, however, have 10BASE2 thin-net and a nominal Novell 2.x or 3.x file server.