Douglas Adams has a close association with computers. He likes Macintoshes, and at one stage lived with one in Islington (see the dedications in The Complete Radio Scripts and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency). He says that computers have completely changed the way he writes — he has gone from avoiding writing by finding food to eat, to avoiding writing by reconfiguring his Macintosh's operating system.
He has even written a foreword to PowerBook, the Digital Nomad's Guide (ISBN 0-679-74588-2), saying how he couldn't see how he ever did without his PowerBook before.