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Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer (2009)
Reports from the Bibliographic BunkerJed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting 16-bit Intel 8088 chip with an Apple Macintosh ...
the Tandy 2000 runs MS-DOS but can’t use most programs produced for the IBM Personal Computer unless certain bits and bytes are altered but the wind still blows over Savannah and in the Spring the turkey buzzard struts and flounces before his hens. The same letter to Kijewski continues, “But, still, when [the electronic book] comes I will still miss the old fashioned book.” Despite such statements, it is clear that Bukowski was a writer not afraid of, or pessimistic about, the future. What would Burroughs have done with an Ian Sommerville-type collaborator who knew the nuts and bolts of computers and the Internet, was aware of their philosophical and cultural implications, and also possessed a desire to expand the medium creatively?
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