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May 14, 2014 11:17 pm GMT

George R.R. Martin Writes 'Game of Thrones' on a '70s Word Processor

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Finally, a possible answer to why it's taken Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin upwards of 20 years to pen the series: He's using technology older than Westeros

Martin appeared on Conan Tuesday night and admitted he uses a "DOS machine" running WordStar 4.0 to write the wildly poplar books. This would basically be like David Benioff and D.B. Weiss admitting they filmed the HBO show only for VHS

See also: The 'Game of Thrones' 'Monty Python' Connection You Missed

For those who can't recall the age of WordStar, it was a processing system released in the '70s (yes, computers existed back then) from MicroPro. It reached peak popularity in the '80s for its simple, text-only design Read more...

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