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...demand for home units has risen dramatically. Among the aficionados: Bestseller Luminaries Michael Crichton (Congo) and Alvin Toffler (The Third Wave). Spy-Master Robert Ludlum endorses the Atari system in magazine ads. Though Novelist Irving Wallace still writes on a 1920-vintage portable, he has promised his secretary a processor...
...book-quality right-hand margins. Novelist Stanley Elkin (The Living End), 51, professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, was given the use of a $13,000 Lexitron by the school. Even before he was disabled by the disease, claims Elkin, the processor would have accelerated his output: "You don't have to screw around erasing and crossing out, finding a clear place in the forest to drop the next hat. If I'd had it in 1964, I'd have written three more books by now." Chicago Author William...
...author of April in Paris, Screenwriter Melville Shavelson converted his Radio Shack home computer into a word processor with the addition of inexpensive software. This double-barreled capacity to tap and then manipulate information allows him a futuristic scope: "I subscribe to a Virginia computer service called The Source. I can get Jack Anderson scoops three days before they're scoops," claims Shavelson. "I can feed into it any two cities in the world and it'll figure out the airline connections for me, with a restaurant guide to various cities. Also I have a research service...
Sesame Street Consultant Christopher Cerf adds even more voltage to his endorsement: "I use my processor to write, to store notes, to create, to edit, to organize. It's already paid for itself. I don't need a secretary any more. It's the most important tool writers have been given since Gutenberg created movable type...
Still, there were those who thought Gutenberg's invention was the work of the devil, and there are many writers who refuse to countenance a glowing screen above their keyboards. Screenwriter Jeffrey Fiskin (Cutter and Bone) decided against one: "Testing a machine, I programmed out the. The processor also removed thesis and theocracy. I thought: 'Do I want one of those, or do I want to add to my wine cellar?' The wine cellar won." John Updike speaks for many colleagues: "I am not persuaded that the expense and time it takes to learn the machine would...