About the Author
Corey Sandler has lived a life (thus far) probably worthy of two or three “About the Author” entries. He holds degrees in journalism and psychology from Syracuse University back in the days when writers pecked away on typewriters and publishers hired squadrons of monks to hand-letter and illustrate parchment books. Well, at least the first part is true.
As an undergraduate and graduate student he also played around with a gigantic IBM mainframe computer, writing software programs that performed advanced assignments like figuring batting averages for the newborn New York Mets and calculating the proper tip for pizza delivery. He went on to work for daily newspapers in Ohio and New York, covering local and then national politics before joining The Associated Press as a newsman.
When the first personal computers were introduced, Corey managed to switch off the portion of his brain devoted to baseball, pizza tips, and politics and turn back on his interest in computers. He became the first Executive Editor of PC Magazine in 1983 and wrote about and directed the coverage of the birth of personal computer industry, the Internet, and microwaveable pizza.
About 25 years ago he decided to try his hand at books. Since then he has written more than 200 titles on computers … and travel, business, and sports.
When he began writing about computers, the devices came with ten-pound “technical manuals” typed by engineers and programmers. Today, tablets and other technology often ...
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