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Fault-Intolerant [MultiFormat]
eBook by Isaac Asimov
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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: An author's short-short diary excerpt reveals a love/hate relationship with a new word processor ... and a new twist in the technology of creativity.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Asimov's, 1990
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2002
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [41 KB], eReader (PDB) [20 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [6 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [6 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [59 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [76 KB], hiebook (KML) [46 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [36 KB], iSilo (PDB) [5 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [7 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [34 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [13 KB]
Words: 1905
Reading time: 5-7 min.
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9 january
I, Abram Ivanov, finally have a home computer; a word processor, to be exact. I fought it as long as I could. I argued it out with myself. I am America's most prolific writer and I do fine on a typewriter. Last year I published over thirty books. Some of them were small books for kids. Some were anthologies. But there were also novels, short story collections, essay collections, nonfiction books. Nothing to be ashamed of.
So why do I need a word processor? I can't go any faster. But, you know, there's such a thing as neatness. Typing my stuff means I have to introduce pen-and-ink items to correct typos, and nobody does that anymore. I don't want my manuscripts to stick out like a sore thumb. I don't want editors to think my stuff is second rate, just because it is corrected.
The difficulty was finding a machine that wouldn't take two years to learn to use. Deft, I'm not--as I've frequently mentioned in this diary. And I want one that doesn't break down every other day. Mechanical failures just throw me. So I got one that's "fault-tolerant." That means if some component goes wrong, the machine keeps right on working, tests the malfunctioning component, corrects it if it can, reports it if it can't, and replacements can be carried through by anybody. It doesn't take an expert hacker. Sounds like my kind of thing.
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