The Old Guard and The New Aeon: Bukowski & His Mac IIsi
By Giania • Oct 22nd, 2009 at 9:37 am • Category: Articles of Interest| Hot: |  |  | | | |
16-bit Intel 8088 chip
with an Apple Macintosh
you can’t run Radio Shack programs
in its disc drive.
nor can a Commodore 64
drive read a file
you have created on an
IBM Personal Computer.
both Kaypro and Osborne computers use
the CP/M operating system
but can’t read each other’s
handwriting
for they format (write
on) discs in different
ways.
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.– Charles Bukowski
That is featured at the opening of a fantastic article which covers and ruminates on writers Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs, their flirtations with the dawning “Digital Age” (as I’ve heard it called). Bukowski took to it like a duck to water, by all accounts. He recognized the immediacy of computer-based writing, leveraging the speed of typing with the ability to edit freely.
Burroughs, for all his talk of the future, appears to have worked exclusively in handwriting and typewriters.
Originally found via GeekForceFive.
