![]() In a 1986 interview, for example, he mentions being obsessed with Infocom’s interactive version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. But computers were more than a tool to him: right from the beginning, he also played computer games enthusiastically. From the second Discworld novel on, he wrote all of his books digitally this was undoubtedly a factor in the prodigious writing and publishing pace he maintained for so many years. He soon upgraded to a Sinclair Spectrum and then to an Amstrad CPC 464, which was his first computer strong enough to run a practical word processor. In 1981, he purchased a Sinclair ZX81 in kit form and soldered it together successfully. ![]() As a man of wide-ranging curiosity, Terry Pratchett was drawn to personal computers early.
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