Subj : Re: list.com
To   : AKAcastor
From : Lynx769
Date : Wed Apr 17 2024 12:36:24

 AK> Norton Utilities was such an incredible product.  The quality and
 AK> usefulness of those utilities!!  Good enough that they could bank on the
 AK> name "Norton" selling software for years, no matter how terrible they
 AK> eventually made it after the sale to Symantec.
 AK> 
 AK> Between Norton Utilities and his book The Programmer's Guide to the IBM
 AK> PC, how would we have survived using PCs in the 1980s without Peter
 AK> Norton?!  Huge impact when it came to "making things work".

That name brought back some memories. In high school, there was a group of us that completed the two computer science classes which had state-provided curriculum, but we were still seniors and wanted a "CS3" elective. The CS teacher was a brand-new teacher, who just graduated with a CS degress herself and only a few years older than us, agreed to teach the class.

The only problem was that they scheduled our class in the same room and time as the CS2 class. So, guess where the teacher spent her time? She would give us projects to work on, but we were seniors and not all that motivated to complete them.

Anyway, for one of her "projects," she handed us Peter Norton's book and told  us to read it. That one I completed and thoroughly enjoyed.


-- Lachlan

.... A PC a day keeps the Apple away!

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