For over 20 years, Annabooks has published some of the leading books covering cutting edge PC technologies. Today, we continue to develop books that cover unique technology topics. Here is a look at our history:
1988 – Annabooks is founded in San Diego, CA. After creating the first backplane PCs and the company I-BUS in the early 80s, John Choisser teamed with John O. Foster to create “The XT-AT Handbook” later to become “The PC Handbook”. The shirt pocket sized handbook was packed with technical details on the PC architecture. The handbook was a must-have for hardware and software developers looking to build their own embedded PCs. BiosMaker (later to become Annabios) and Promkit soon followed. Around this time, Annabooks became Microsoft’s first distributor for MS-DOS to the embedded market.
1989 – The XT-AT Handbook by John O. Foster and John P. Choisser
1989 – Promkit by John O. Foster and John P. Choisser
1990 – Biosmaker by John O. Foster
1990’s - Expanding on the need to help OEMs build embedded PC systems, several industry experts signed up to be authors and cover some of the key PC technologies of the decade. Edward Solari wrote the successful ISA & EISA Theory & Operation, and he would later write and co-write several other books including the equally popular PCI Hardware and Software Architecture & Design with George Willse. Two Intel Engineers, Brian Dipert and Markus Levy, wrote the earliest book on flash memory: Designing with Flash Memory. Annabooks also started a PC development training course with several of the authors taking part. As new PC technologies were being developed, other authors covered USB and PCI-X, and there were even a few non-PC related texts.
1992 - ISA & EISA Theory & Operation by Edward Solari
1993 - PC Keyboard Design: The PC Compatible Keyboard Design Reference by Gary Konzak
1993 - Designing with Flash Memory by Brian Dipert and Markus Levy
1994 - PCI Hardware and Software Architecture & Design by Edward Solari and George Willse
1995 - The PCI Handbook by Brian Dipert
1995 - The Internet Joke Book by Brad Templeton
1996 - Fuzzy Logic for Real World Design by Ted Heske and Jill Neporent Heske
1996 - DOS Buttons v 2.0
1996 - Power Management that Works by James C. Bunnell
1997 - The Embedded PCs ISA Bus by Ed Nisley
1998 - Interrupt Driven PC System Design by Joe McGivern
1998 - USB Hardware and Software by John Garney
1998 - PCI HotPlug Application and Design by Alan Goodrum
1999 - Developing USB PC Peripherals by Wooi Ming Tan
2000 - Windows NT Embedded Step-by-Step by Sean Liming
2000 - Programming the Motorola M68HC12 Family by Gordon Doughman
2000 - USB Handbook by Kosar Jaff
2000 - PCI Power Management by George Willse, Edward Solari, Jim Ewertz
2000 - USB Peripheral Design by John Koon
2002 – Annabooks is sold to The RTC Group, the leader in embedded marketing. Annabooks become RTC Books. Several new book titles were published:
2003 - Windows® XP Embedded Step – by-Step by James Beau Cseri
2003 - Embedded Networking with CAN and CANopen by Olaf Pfeiffer, Andrew Ayre, and Christian Keydel.
2004 - Windows® XP Embedded Advanced by Sean Liming
2008 – SJJ Embedded Micro Solutions, LLC. acquires RTC Books to expand book publishing efforts.
2009 – Annabooks.com is re-launched
Annabooks is a wholly own subsidiary of SJJ Embedded Micro solutions, LLC.
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