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SATA drives replaced IDE drives (which this appears to be) more than ten years ago, somewhere around 2004-2006.
by johansch 9y ago
SATA 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!