Reply To: The Dune Screenplay was written in MS-DOS
Nice find, trumad!
I was going to add that George R R Martin uses WordStar… but the article beat me to it!
Psy,I have to agree with you that it’s relaxing. I use my various pieces of ancient hardware from time to time to do a bit of casual writing and I generally prefer it to my modern system. I would also add that there’s no facebook or other modern things tempting me. I like that old systems generally just do one thing at a time and you can dedicate the whole of your focus on that.
The only downside to my particularly purist way is that old systems are prone to dying. And if I don’t want to lose my work, it can be a major hassle to backup onto newer hardware.
