Subject: Re: JDS's computer
From: Lisa M. Rabey (lisar@net-link.net)
Date: Sun Apr 27 1997 - 10:46:05 GMT
At 05:18 PM 4/27/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>> to cornish...one thing is probable--mr. salinger wouldn't have the
>> patience for the "illogic" of windows and dos and is certain to be booting
>> an apple system in the am with his granola and organic milk.
>
>Yes! An early Performa model, if not a Mac Classic (perhaps even a
>IIe!...remember tpying "catalog" to get a dir of the drive?).
>
>Then again, JD could have mislead us all and skipped the early PC
>revolution, going directly from manual typewriter to writing his own
>operating system: Glass OS. You get the usual windows, but all your text
>files appear as haikus and the dos prompt only understand koans. The
>screen saver, of course, is four or five Salinger characters sitting
>around chain smoking. Or Franny writing stuff from Sappho or Epictetus
>with chalk on your screen...
hmmmm..i wonder if anyone came up with something like that (screen savers)
and if it would be infringing on any of the copyright laws that salinger
has protecting his work?
computer related item: saw 'the saint' last night, and was drooling over
the Nokia 9000 (http://www.nokia.com), this thing does everything but make
your bed, and starting price for it is about 2k US dollars. roughy. what it
is, is a cellphone with its on os, also can be used to send and receive
email/faxes/voicemail, as well as has addressbook, date book, todo list.
gimme. ;)
another salinger note: started re-reading "nine stories", and thinking
about 'apdfb", and one thing keeps going through my mind, WHY did seymour
marry muriel? She's obviously the antithesis of his soul. The only
'logical' thing that i could think of would be that he married her because
he felt, to an extent, that by dating someone non-glassesque, he could save
himself, which he knew even further down, was horribley not true.
ttfn.
lisa
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