PC MOM: The Mother of All PC Books is the ultimate PC resource with a sense of humor. Ever wonder what's going on inside your computer? Whether you should finally blow the bucks on a fancy sound board? Curious if those whiz-bang new games are any better than the old ones? Have you been thinking about upgrading from SmartDrive to a competitive disk cache? For that matter, what's a disk cache? You've come to the right place.

PC MOM gives you the straight scoop on hardware, software, and PC's newest wave, multimedia and "edutainment." If you've ever wondered how to get an unbiased answer to a tough question--particularly without asking somebody who's trying to sell you something--you've come to the right place! PC MOM not only explains what to do, but also shows you why you do it--no pulled punches, no baffling techno-speak, no intimidation. Just a fun, rolling gazeteer of the latest and greatest uses for your PC.

Whether you're trying to wring the last big of power from your PC--or just trying to get it to work!--PC MOM is a goldmine of useful information in plain English. Remember--MOM knows best!

Woody Leonhard is a contributing editor at PC/Computing, author of Windows 3.1 Programming for Mere Mortals, coauthor of The Hacker's Guide to Word for Windows, Second Edition and CD-MOM: The Mother of All Windows Books CD Version (all from Addison-Wesley), and a Tibetan human rights activist.

Barry Simon is a contributing editor at PC Magazine and Windows Sources, and coauthor of Methods of Modern Mathematical Physics (with Michael Reed) and CD-MOM: The Mother of All Windows Books CD Version (with Woody Leonhard).

PC MOM's two companion CDs venture where no companion disk has gone before. Run actual portions of the hot new games and education and entertainment offerings from the leading multimedia publishers-- Broderbund, LucasArts, Humongous Entertainment, and Knowledge Adventure. Try out the Public (software) Library Games Collection--over 1500 shareware and freeware games. Check out the Compleat Works of Shakespeare (courtesy of the Bureau of Electronic Publishing) or Roget's Thesaurus. Look up any toll-free number in ProCD's complete 800-number directory--a $39.00 value. And there's more--the CDs bring you the cream of the crop of PC software, including:

Great Windows utilities including the File Manager from PCTools, Norton Desktop's File Assist and HP Dashboard 1.0

The Midisoft Studio 3.1 working model

The Seize the Day calendar working model

The complete contents of the DOS 6.2 supplemental disk

Dozens of fonts and screen savers

Multimedia samplers from seven Broderbund Living Books

The Columbia Electronic Dictionary of Quotations sampler

From LucasArts, selected episodes of Rebel Assault and the Sam and Max Hit the Road sampler

The MegaRace sampler from Software Toolworks

The PuttPutt catalog of samplers from Humongous Entertainment

Knowledge Adventure's complete catalog (about 150 MB of demos), plus an 800 number to call for free 3-D glasses

Opus 'n' Bill Screensaver sampler from Delrina

24 fonts from Bitstream and 3 Hebrew Fonts from Kabbalah Software

Megabytes of sound and movie clips, clip art, stock photos

And MUCH MORE

PC MOM includes detailed, step-by-step instructions on accessing and using the CDs' incredible collection of software.

System Requirements:

PC compatible 286 or better running DOS 3.3 or higher.

Access to a CD-ROM drive.

Some programs also require Windows 3.1 running in 386 enhanced mode.

Mouse highly recommended.