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Article #1058Re: XYZZY
From: bu... Ben Burch
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 16:12
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1990 16:12
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> I believe that Will just made it up [much as he made up near everything else > in Adventure]. I can ask him, but I'm really quite sure that it was just > random-letters. > > /Bernie\ > If you know him; I have a question I have been fairly itching to ask; I read a book called "The Longest Cave" which was all about the exploration of the Mammoth Cave / Colossal Cave complex in TN. (There IS a place named "Y2", there IS a "Bedquilt") In this book is a picture of a woman named Pat Crowthers (I dont really remember the correct spelling, sorry if I got it wrong.) who is mapping the cave on an IBM 1130 with a pen plotter. My question is if this woman is related to the adventure author of the same last name? Thanks! -Ben Burch
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!quik07.enet.dec.com!burch From: bu...@quik07.enet.dec.com (Ben Burch) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: XYZZY Message-ID: <8121@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 5 Feb 90 16:12:30 GMT References: <51073@bbn.COM> <4504@rtech.rtech.com> Sender: newsd...@shlump.nac.dec.com Reply-To: bu...@quik07.enet.dec.com (Ben Burch) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Lines: 22 Posted: Mon Feb 5 17:12:30 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit