Pocket PC Reference

I volunteer two nights a week helping train people to recycle"old" donated PCs so we can farm them out to people whocannot afford new ones and to not-for-profit organizations who justhave a basic word processing/e-mail need. Therefore, any givennight I might see ten different PCs varying from a 386 being strippedof useful parts, to a high end 486 being upgraded for one last cycleof usefulness, to occasional Pentiums. It goes without saying thatnone of them come with any documentation at all, and a lot has changedin the past 8 - 10 years in the PC world.I got my hands on [arecent edition] of this book...about a month ago, and it is dog-earedalready. It's saved a fair quantity of old hardware, such as diskdrives, that we would have junked otherwise, simply because we couldfind out about them. It's saved many hours of fiddling around in oldBIOS. Its chronology of DOS and Windows even saved some time recentlywhen I had to say how many years I had worked with particular releasesof software.I call it my "Magic Book", and so do thepeople I'm training. When you do what I do, it's almost as valuableas a nut driver, and probably saves more time.

As a young technician 11 years ago I had very little reference material. Every subject was covered in huge hard to understand books, had I known about Pocket PCREF then troubleshooting would have been a whole lot easier.Packed into this pocket book is a world of computer information that would make a great supplement to the study for A+ certification. From the ASCII codes to number conversions and keyboard shortcuts, hard drive reference tables, pc hardware and so much more are all included.The book has enough detail that the information is a real help in the technical arena. Every one can benefit from what this book gives. As an instructor for A+ certification, this book has become a standard for every student to receive.Looking for the one book that covers about twelve others, look no further than the Pocket PCREF and you'll find your answer. Sequoia Publishing has a whole host of other reference books as well stop by their website and take a look, you're money will be well spent.

I have used this book to determine HD sizes of old drives. Finding it an excellent reference, a definite MUST for all PC support and repair individuals.

This is the BEST bok that I have ever usued for computer repair. This book keeps me from lugging 4 or 5 other computer references with me. This is the ONLY general computer ref. worth buying!

This book has just about everything. It has BIOS beep codes, on screen error codes and what they meen, hard drive info, phone numbers to manufacturs, video info, modem info... Just name it. Probably the most useful little book I have ever had.