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[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 10:08, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
>At 10:02 AM 12/2/03 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>Then Rodney Zacks also did a couple books, but they were far more
>>mistake prone than Bills were.  One of his (Rodney's)  mistakes in
>>the Z-80 book cost me quite a bit of time many years ago.  One
>> tends to remember things like that I guess.
>>IMO Bill understood the 6809, but Rodney was just a writer.
>
>He was careless. I helped edit the Z-80 book, and my late friend
> Phil Hooper helped edit the 6502 book. But we might as well have
> started writing from scratch -- these were in *galley* stages when
> we got them, far too late to get all the mistakes. Yuck. And yes,
> Bill was both a real writer and person who understood these devices
> in an intuitive way.
>
>Dennis

Amen Dennis.  But I didn't know your name was associated with the Z-80 
book...

By golly, there it is, last line of the first paragraph of 
acknowledgements.  I should have read that a little closer.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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