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. >--- >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.. >> > > >--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- >Share what you know. Learn what you don't. -- Colin Pink