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That's a very old looking HDD. It seems odd that his most recent work would be on that.
by jamiethompson 9y ago
That's a very old looking HDD. It seems odd that his most recent work would be on that.
- rullelito 9y agoYes, strange indeed, I expected Terry to only roll with the latest in tech.
- laumars 9y agoSarcasm? There has been interviews with him where he discusses his "writing equipment" and like many authors he preferred a basic system that kept mostly out of his way. I mean it's just as easy to write a novel in Word for DOS* as it is in the latest software and hardware tech, so why would authors want to waste their time always running the latest tech when it's a distraction from their day job? * I'm not advocating people write novels in DOS. Just making an exaggerated point that since the medium is text only you don't need to be upgrading frequently.
- jrimbault 9y agoIsn't GRR Martin famously writing on a DOS computer ?
- laumars 9y agoIndeed: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27407502 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27407502
- digi_owl 9y agoUsing Wordstar no less, must drive his editor and publisher bonkers. Not that i can't relate. If i could find a CLI browser that kept up with latest CSS and JS stuff, i would be doing everything in a framebuffer CLI.
- dspillett 9y agoCould easily have been a drive that had been in his main work machine for quite some time. He no doubt had the good sense to have backups on other local drives and remote services[1], but this could still be his primary store. It isn't like holding the text of books in progress is a task that needs the speediest of SSDs so if that drive just kept working why would he replace it? [1] presumably these have also been purged if his wishes were so written or interpreted, probably by more conventional means[2] [2] the bulldozer being used for this one drive for ceremonial purposes
- johansch 9y agoSATA drives replaced IDE drives (which this appears to be) more than ten years ago, somewhere around 2004-2006.
- kingbirdy 9y agoHe could have been on an old computer - GRRM, for example, still writes on an MS-DOS machine
- dspillett 9y agoPATA drives were still common enough ten years ago, maybe not in brand new machines but certainly in active ones and readily available as replacements/upgrades. Using a machine from ~10 years ago for document authoring isn't unusual. A good keyboard screen is more important than the rest of the machine for that sort of job - you don't need something new, fancy, & powerful, and many authors prefer an older machine because they can't run distractions well!