Tools

When I sold my first book, the on-pub payment went to the purchase of a state-of-the-art machine: an IBM Correcting Selectric III, brand new, light brown. I named it Toast. (I am not the sort of person who commonly names her stuff. Or rather, I might name my stuff, but then I forget that I’ve done so, and the name withers and dies.) And I wrote four more books on it. And did various other things. When I joined the computer revolution in the mid-80s, I kept Toast around for filling out triplic...