Originally Posted by El Loro:
George RR Martin, the writer of the Game of Thrones books, does all his writing on an old computer which uses MS-DOS rather than Windows. He uses WordStar 4.0 (which came out around 1985) rather then Word. Just doesn't like computers which try to automatically change your typing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27407502
first computer type processor I ever used - as we'd been using daisy wheel and golf ball electric type writers, Wordstar was an amazing concept to us