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From: darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CRETIN MANOR MAIL
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Date: 17 Oct 88 17:27:26 GMT
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Another "computer-illiterate literate" that comes to mind is Piers Anthony.
In his 'Incarnations of Immortality' series, he ends each book with an
editor's note regarding how death, time, fate, etc. involved him personally.
(actually, kind of interesting in a wierd way)

A topic talked about is his switch-over from typewriter to wordprocessor.
His two major choices were "Captain M" and "Miss Dos".  Now his primary
goal was to be able to redefine his keymaps to use his own style of
keyboard layout (it may have been Dvorak, but I seem to recall it was his
own setup).  His choice of wordprocessor and computer revolved around
this decision (he eventually bought a DEC Rainbow running CP/M).  Now,
I know I could have written a keymap for the Amiga, I doubt that a
novice could have (I suppose if he had heard of Amiga and knew an
Amiga programmer who could write a keymap, the story would have ended
differently).

The nice thing was, he didn't tout himself as an "expert", but went out
and sought advice from people who did call themselves "experts".
It was an interesting insight into the way a computer-novice thinks.

Darin Johnson (...pyramid.arpa!leadsv!laic!darin)
              (...ucbvax!sun!sunncal!leadsv!laic!darin)
	"All aboard the DOOMED express!"