My career in s/w development began way back in 1986 during my college days at Madras Christian College (MCC) while majoring in Zoology. My s/w programming started with Sinclair ZX Spectrum+ with ROM-BASIC - a home computer made popular by Dorling Kindersley. I spent a year using it and getting my feet wet. At a later point in time, I started working for a computer education company at which point, my mother helped me get a PC-XT a 20mb harddisk, 640KB RAM, with 256 KB EMM, a floppy disk drive, a Monochrome monitor made by ET&T New Delhi, India. It was the best money could buy then. I used to spend countless programming hrs on antiivirus, screen editors, code gens, copy protection and many more...

During my years of DOS programming those years, I had a few favorite books that I absolutely fell in love with. I used to carry those with me to just about anywhere. Top most being, "The NEW Peter Norton's Guide to Programming IBM PC and PS/2" (Peter Norton was my idol), second being, "Advanced MS DOS prorgamming by Ray Duncan" and thirdly being, "Advanced Systems Programming with Turbo Pascal by Steve O'Brien". These 3 books absolutely were my "bloodline". Unfortunately, I had lost all three of these while at work place. After having moved to the US, I lost trails of these books. Just recently, I had traced these at a few private owners and dealers and "re-procured" them. I may not use these as I used to in our good'ol DOS days. But, will sure cherish re-owning these fantastic books. I might still use these to do DOS programming once in a while for fun - especially those TSRs!!.

Nagi