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Peter Norton (born November 14 , 1943 ) is an American Software Publisher and Philanthropist . Norton was born in Aberdeen , Washington and attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon , graduating in 1965. In the 1980s , he produced a popular tool to retrieve erased data from DOS disks, which was followed by several other tools which were collectively known as the Norton Utilities . Along with Norton Utilities, Norton produced Norton Commander , a very popular file managing tool for DOS and Norton Guides , a TSR program which showed reference information for Assembly Language and other IBM PC internals, but could also display other reference information compiled into the appropriate file format. Norton and his company, Peter Norton Computing , also produced several other programs and technical manuals. In 1990 , Norton sold the company to Symantec ; however, the Norton brand name lives on in such Symantec products as Norton AntiVirus , Norton Internet Security , Norton Personal Firewall , Norton SystemWorks (which now contains a current version of the Norton Utilities), Norton AntiSpam , Norton GoBack (formerly Roxio GoBack), Norton Partition Magic and Norton Ghost . Norton's visage was used on the packaging of all Norton-branded products until 2001 . Norton and his then-wife Eileen Harris Norton later founded the Peter Norton Family Foundation, which gives financial support to visual and contemporary non-profit arts organizations, as well as human social services orgranizations. Norton and Eileen Harris Norton, who were separated in 2003, own one of the largest modern contemporary art collections in the nation. Many of the pieces are on loan all over the world at any given time. The foundation and the Norton Family Office, reside in Santa Monica , California . ARTnews magazine regularly lists Norton in the world's top 200 collectors. Norton is the president of the Peter Norton Family Foundation. He also serves on the boards of Creative Capital Foundation For The Arts , the California Institute For The Arts , Reed College, Crossroads School, the Museum Of Modern Art In New York , and Acorn Technologies . In 1999, Norton purchased letters written to Joyce Maynard by reclusive author J.D. Salinger for $156,000. (Salinger had a year-long affair with Maynard in 1972 when she was 18.) Maynard said she was forced to auction the letters for financial reasons. Norton announced his intention was to return the letters to Salinger. |
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