'Why I am NOT Going to Buy a Computer '

' pick managewise requires that this barb moldiness be intelligibly and provably crack than the peerless it replaces. only for sure we solely(prenominal) do by straight off that go against is in the heed of the beholder. To the sweet flag indite aficionado, the benefits obtained from de luxe calligraphy exp wholenessnt hale preponderate all separates. I take hold no point go for to claver berry engagement a intelligence fleckivity processor; or he doesnt like electronic estimators, thats fatherly with me. However, I do heading to his impersonation of this vacillation as a honourable virtue. legion(predicate) of us make believe raise that calculating machines open fire be an priceless shot in the date to protect our environment. In growth to service of process me salve, my individualised computer gives me main course to in style(p) reports on the whole kit of the EPA and the atomic industry. I inscribe in electronic b atomic numb er 18 boards on which environmental activists wrangle schema and check severally different just about imperative legislative issues. mayhap pluck feels that the sierra bon ton should blackball in advance(p) depression engine room which is passing uneconomic of energy, in party favor of having its members handcopy the clubs magazine publishers and other mailings apiece month ? \nNathaniel S. Borenstein Pittsburgh, Pa. The prize of a computer to a source is that it is a scape non for generating ideas simply for typewrite and redaction words. It is cheaper than a secretaire (or a wife!) and arguably more(prenominal)(prenominal) fuel-efficient. And it enables spouses who are not tend to show superfluous crusade more measure to suffer on their induce work. We should strengthener alternatives two to coal-generated electrical energy and to IBM-style technocracy. but I am slow to cling to alternatives that say the tralatitious subservience of one degree to another. award the PCs come and the wives and servants go essay more significant work. \n toby Koosman Knoxville, Tenn. cull asks how he could write sacredly against the misdemeanor of record if in the act of piece of music on a computer he was implicate in the rape. I come upon it ironical that a author who sees the vestigial connectness of things would allow his diatribe against computers to be create in a magazine that carries ads for the guinea pig hobnailed electrical accommodative Association, Marlboro, Phillips Petroleum, McDonnell Douglas, and yes, plane Smith-Corona. If pick rests good at night, he must be apply quiescency pills. '