In 1993, as a broke high-school student pre-cell-phone and pre-search-engine, we didn't even have that (although we did have BBS phone-number/speeds/protocols/l

In 1993, as a broke high-school student pre-cell-phone and pre-search-engine, we didn't even have that (although we did have BBS phone-number/speeds/protocols/login lists). I had to take the nascent VTA Lightrail (when it was even more uncool) to Computer Literacy bookstore (when programming was also less cool) to find decent technical references... and I promptly dropped a few hundred bucks on dead tree carcasses when I was making minimum wage. Haha. X) - Programmer's PC Sourcebook - PC Intern - Undocumented PC - Undocumented DOS - Programmer's Guide to EGA, VGA ... - Michael Abrash books on assembly including self-modifying code and graphics programming - Turbo Assembler Quick Reference Guide - Code Complete Later, the MindShare series were really good.