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FrankRahman: /* D. C. Fontana */

2026-10-16T11:59:02Z

D. C. Fontana

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	<blockquote>I write by hand. First draft. I love my yellow pads but then as I'm typing it now into the computer it's easy to change. If I come up with a better line of dialog or a better scene sequence I can move them around and all that good stuff but that's my second draft. Then I print it out because I like to look at the page. I hate looking at a screen. I do it all again. I read it through. I edit it. I add things. I take things out and then I go back to the computer and put it in all again so my producers are usually getting third or fourth drafts but that's how I work. ...		<blockquote>I write by hand. First draft. I love my yellow pads but then as I'm typing it now into the computer it's easy to change. If I come up with a better line of dialog or a better scene sequence I can move them around and all that good stuff but that's my second draft. Then I print it out because I like to look at the page. I hate looking at a screen. I do it all again. I read it through. I edit it. I add things. I take things out and then I go back to the computer and put it in all again so my producers are usually getting third or fourth drafts but that's how I work. ...

	The greatest thing that happened was computers. I got my first one in 1983 and I haven't stopped using computers since. But I still do that original first work by hand on a yellow pad<br>		The greatest thing that happened was computers. I got my first one in 1983 and I haven't stopped using computers since. But I still do that original first work by hand on a yellow pad.<br>
	([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSp8TnnbNU&t=2780s The Writer Speaks: D.C. Fontana] around 1:14)		([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSp8TnnbNU&t=2780s The Writer Speaks: D.C. Fontana] around 1:14)
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FrankRahman: /* D. C. Fontana */

2026-10-16T11:56:54Z

D. C. Fontana

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	Studio City, CA 91604<br>		Studio City, CA 91604<br>
	(Kugram, May/June 1986)		(Kugram, May/June 1986)
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	From her interview with the Writer's Guild:		From her interview with the Writer's Guild:

FrankRahman: /* D. C. Fontana */

2026-10-16T11:56:19Z

D. C. Fontana

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	I should mention that I have both an old Kaypro 2 and a Kaypro 2000. I work most often with the old 2, but if a suggested program needs the extra capacity of the 2000, I'd use that.		I should mention that I have both an old Kaypro 2 and a Kaypro 2000. I work most often with the old 2, but if a suggested program needs the extra capacity of the 2000, I'd use that.

	D.C. Fontana		D.C. Fontana<br>
			[Street address redacted]<br>
	[Street address redacted ~~by me~~]

	Studio City, CA 91604<br>		Studio City, CA 91604<br>
	(Kugram, May/June 1986)		(Kugram, May/June 1986)

FrankRahman: /* D. C. Fontana */

2026-10-16T11:55:42Z

D. C. Fontana

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	D.C. Fontana		D.C. Fontana

	~~11862-D Moor park~~ Street		[Street address redacted by me]

	Studio City, CA 91604<br>		Studio City, CA 91604<br>

FrankRahman: /* D. C. Fontana */

2026-10-16T11:54:36Z

D. C. Fontana

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	Studio City, CA 91604<br>		Studio City, CA 91604<br>
	(Kugram, May/June 1986)		(Kugram, May/June 1986)

			From her interview with the Writer's Guild:
			<blockquote>I write by hand. First draft. I love my yellow pads but then as I'm typing it now into the computer it's easy to change. If I come up with a better line of dialog or a better scene sequence I can move them around and all that good stuff but that's my second draft. Then I print it out because I like to look at the page. I hate looking at a screen. I do it all again. I read it through. I edit it. I add things. I take things out and then I go back to the computer and put it in all again so my producers are usually getting third or fourth drafts but that's how I work. ...

			The greatest thing that happened was computers. I got my first one in 1983 and I haven't stopped using computers since. But I still do that original first work by hand on a yellow pad<br>
			([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCSp8TnnbNU&t=2780s The Writer Speaks: D.C. Fontana] around 1:14)
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FrankRahman: /* D. C. Fontana */

2026-10-15T17:16:20Z

D. C. Fontana

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	===D. C. Fontana===		===D. C. Fontana===
	Script writer (Star Trek, TOS)<br>		Script writer (Star Trek, TOS & TNG)<br>
			Ironic the the Writer of the episode "The Ultimate Computer" would later use a Kaypro.<br>
	She even submitted a question to Kugram stating the machines she used.		She even submitted a question to Kugram stating the machines she used.
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FrankRahman at 16:57, 15 October 2026

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 "Arthur C. Clarke, one of the world's best known and most respected authors of science fiction and science fact literature, poses before one of the Kaypro II computers used to relay information between the production office and Clarke's Sri Lanka home."<br>
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FrankRahman: /* Arthur C. Clarke */

2025-09-08T23:45:27Z

Arthur C. Clarke

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	"Arthur C. Clarke, one of the world\s best known and most respected authors of science fiction and science fact literature, poses before one of the Kaypro II computers used to relay information between the production office and Clarke's Sri Lanka home."<br>		"Arthur C. Clarke, one of the world's best known and most respected authors of science fiction and science fact literature, poses before one of the Kaypro II computers used to relay information between the production office and Clarke's Sri Lanka home."<br>
	(Caption at the bottom of image)		(Caption at the bottom of image)

FrankRahman at 19:41, 29 August 2025

2025-08-29T19:41:29Z

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			===Roy Underhill===
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			"That is my beloved Kaypro as we are posing for a magazine article on how I used it for construction management, building eighteenth century houses at Colonial Williamsburg."<br>
			(Email from Roy Underhill, August 15, 2025)

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			"Arthur C. Clarke, one of the world\s best known and most respected authors of science fiction and science fact literature, poses before one of the Kaypro II computers used to relay information between the production office and Clarke's Sri Lanka home."<br>
			(Caption at the bottom of image)

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2025-08-29T19:30:58Z

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