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Old 11-14-2015, 12:42 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
Are you sure about that? Pournelle pioneered writing on a computer, writing on a Z-80 back in the late 70's. I would think that he had electronic copies of all his books.
Of the original manuscript, perhaps (and would that old file still be readable?). But the finished, edited, proofed, and published book?

Probably not. Book publishing didn't really start going digital until, what, the 1990s? So it's possible that a lot of his early work had to be scanned before it could be released digitally.
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