Game of Thrones written on WordStar 4.0

George RR Martin, the famous author of the books Game of Thrones is not really at the forefront of technology: he wrote his works on a DOS machine with software for word processing WordStar 4.0.

"I have a secret weapon. In fact, I have two computers. The first that I use for the internet, my emails and more. Then I write my computer is a machine not connected to Internet in DOS. (...) I use the word processor WordStar 4.0. "Here is explained by the famous author of the Game of Thrones series, called in a U.S. talk show.

But why this software? "Just because I like this software. It does everything I expect from a word processing software and nothing else! I do not want help. I hate the new software when you type a lowercase letter you into uppercase. When I want to make a capital letter, a capital I! I know how to work the Shift key. " 

Like many authors, George RR Martin has obviously afraid of viruses that may infect your machine and delete his texts. That is why his computer writing is not connected to the Internet. In contrast, the second computer is connected to the Web and enables it to feed his blog.