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Co-thinker Erica
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The computer came to David's life quite recently, and the reason was rather earthly - the need to write a play for the opening of the first Early Music Festival in Tartu.
In the beginning was David - who makes almost all his notes with ink pen and calligraphy - rather opposed to the whole idea of computers. As he wrote in his diary -
"the turning point was a little Wild West Train which used to puff-puff across the screen in Tartu Arts Centre when the computer had nothing more important to do".
Since whatever he does, he does wholeheartedly, he now has his own computer, and after the computer had come to the house, there followed weeks filled with investigation and experiment, so that he didn't even have time to eat and sleep. David's Diary tells us about how his computer got its name:
"A week after I had discovered how the computer can interact, I found out that it really IS a 'con-putator', a co-thinker, which means that 'it' had to have a name.
"At first Eric was as good as any other: but then it turned out that its charm was more appropriate to female gender, so now the name is Erica.
While we are talking, David throws around little notices, praise and some criticism to Erica - 'Good morning Erica' he says when he walks past and the computer sounds the full hour. In the end I take just as much delight in his computer as he does, saying 'she' and calling her Erica, too.
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