Re: Jail Bait
Colin Pink (colin@cpink.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 02 Jul 1999 09:02:42 +0100
I always thought he looked like a nice guy in his photos on his book
covers/software packaging; a bit dorky but a nice guy.
His beginners guide to DOS (or whatever it was called) saved my sanity
when I first started using a PC. It had a nice chatty, friendly
conversational tone, a bit like 'Catcher', maybe it influenced Norton's
style when he came to write his computer book!
In message <JMAAODCHAKMODAAA@my-deja.com>, Cecilia A. Baader
<cbaader@my-Deja.com> writes
>You are correct. He sold the company several years ago to... Symantec? I can't
>remember, but he's been living off the fat of the land ever since.
>
>Cecilia.
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>On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 15:02:12 JediMars wrote:
>>In a message dated 7/1/99 9:08:28 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>colin@cpink.demon.co.uk writes:
>>
>><< In message <0FE4006B10G2WZ@acf3.nyu.edu>, Baader, Cecilia
>> <cbaader@casecorp.com> writes
>> >So much so that, when Sotheby's last week auctioned off on Maynard's behalf
>> >14 letters that Salinger wrote to her over a 17-month period in 1972 and
>> >1973, the winning bidder, California philanthropist Peter Norton, said he
>> >did so because he was "sympathetic to Mr. Salinger's desire for privacy" and
>> >would return the letters to the writer.
>> >
>>
>> This that the same Peter Norton of the famous computer software,
>> Norton's disc doctor etc?
>> --
>> Colin Pink >>
>>
>> i think i heard that he is..
>>
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