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Breathing Machines: A Memoir of Computers by Leigh Alexander

March 29, 2025 by Halbs Leave a Comment

My first memory of a computer is that my backyard neighbor had one. Jason was my age, and his parents were both attorneys. They had both a sailboat and a computer, and in my mind those items were of the same status. Who has a COMPUTER? My second memory of a computer is getting an NES, a Nintendo Entertainment System. My dad was the one who hooked it up to the back of our tv, and he was really the one who understood how to play […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction Tagged With: 90's technology, Leigh Alexander, technology

Halbs's CBR17 Review No:4 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Non-Fiction · Tags: 90's technology, Leigh Alexander, technology ·
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Another plague book… I might be in a slump

June 2, 2016 by kfishgirl 2 Comments

This is my half Cannonball book! I just realized that ?. Twenty-six is as far as I got last year, so hurray for me! Anyway, onward to the book. So i guess my title is a bit misleading. It’s not really a plague book, so much as a bio-terrorism story. It starts out with some scary Spanish flu stuff. They call it the Spanish lady. A Korean village is struck with the Spanish flu somehow, and in the middle of the night, the government decimates […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Suspense Tagged With: #plague, 90's technology, Carolyn Hougan, horsemen

kfishgirl's CBR8 Review No:26 · Genres: Science Fiction, Suspense · Tags: #plague, 90's technology, Carolyn Hougan, horsemen ·
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