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>This book is somewhat of a departure from his other major work,
<A
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> HOW-2 Meet Women: The Shy Man's Guide to
Relationships</A
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HOWTO</A
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(heavy) hand at fiction: <A
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Over Berlin (First Installment)</A
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one-time pad encryption utility, the <A
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mortgage calculator, the <A
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word gaming list package, and the <A
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anagramming gaming package. He got off to a rather shaky start in the
computer game -- programming FORTRAN IV on a CDC 3800 (on paper coding
pads, with occasional forays on a keypunch machine and a Friden
Flexowriter) -- and is not the least bit nostalgic for those
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