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From: alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten)
Newsgroups: comp.robotics
Subject: Re: The Automated Factory Handbook
Message-ID: <3650001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 15 Oct 90 20:05:17 GMT
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>     In general, all TAB books are lousy.  They seem consistently to
> contain vast amounts of filler material and very little meat.  They
> usually read as if someone collected whatever information was easily
> available on the subject and reworked it just enough to avoid 
> plagarism problems.

To avoid repeating this "sweeping generalization," let me insert
``I've seen'' after ``all TAB books'' before I second this statement.

Yeah, there may be some good ones out there, but the last one I bought
unseen was so bad I resolved to automatically reject TAB published books.
Don't buy books based on publisher hype!  Patronize your local bookstore!

"One unhappy customer = 100 satisfied ones for referral output."
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Tom von Alten		email: alien@hpdmlad.boi.hp.com
                        Hewlett-Packard Disk Mechanisms Division
Opinions completely personal, of course.