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Timothy Downs

Ron White is a founder of one of the earliest PC user groups, he has been writing about computers for 20 years, and is the author of many other books, including How Computers Work, one of the best-selling computer books of all times. The second edition of How Computers Work won an award for best non-fiction computer book from the Computer Press Association. Timothy Downs is a long-time artist with Ziff Davis Publications. He currently illustrates for PCComputing and has been illustrator for the popular How It Works stories there. He is the original artist for the first edition of How Computers Work.