Comment by atombender

> And IIRC Gibson famously doesn't use computers IRL

No, he famously didn't own a computer when he wrote Neuromancer.

“I wrote Neuromancer on a manual portable typewriter and about half of Count Zero on the same machine. Then it broke, in a way that was more or less irreparable. Bruce Sterling called me shortly thereafter and said, ‘This changes everything!’ I said, ‘What?’ He said, ‘My Dad gave me his Apple II. You have to get one of these things!’ I said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘Automation—it automates the process of writing!’ I’ve never gone back.” [1]

[1] https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fi...