Van Wolverton

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1939 –

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Who is Van Wolverton?

The widespread proliferation of the personal computer, or PC, in the developed world has had a profound impact. In the early days of the PC Van Wolverton wrote the book Running MS-DOS for Microsoft Press, first published in 1984, and since then written in 27 different languages and having sold over three-and-a-half million copies. And it was a New York best seller! That was the first of many other titles in the Microsoft Press series of Running... books, aiding readers in the understanding and use of various Microsoft applications.

Wolverton was born in Billings, Montana, in 1939. He started college in 1956 at the University of Colorado in Boulder, studying engineering, then left in his junior year to join the Navy, where he taught multi-engine navigation to pilots on flight simulators. When his four-year tour of duty was up, he went back to college at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, graduating in 1965 with a degree in English.

He began working as a journalist and newspaper photographer while still in school in Fort Collins. After graduation he went to Pocatello, Idaho, where in 1966 he wrote his first computer program, which tabulated election results. He then worked for a chain of newspapers in Decatur, Illinois. In 1968 began writing technical manuals for IBM. He had married his skills in technology with his writing.

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Born
1939
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  • United States of America

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on July 23, 2013

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