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Article #165064Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave"
From: se... Peter Seebach
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:00
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In article <37EA2C8F...@erols.com>, Welmoed Sisson <sis...@erols.com> wrote: >Gosh, I remember playing "Adventure" at Boskone in ... let's see, it had >to be late '77 or early '78. It was a really big deal then: you got a >little coupon when you registered that allowed you 15 minutes at the >teletype terminal to play; there were about eight terminals set up in a >little room. People would get groups of four together and kibbitz so >they could play for an hour, taking turns typing for 15 minutes. At the >end of my turn I remember one of the things I ended up with was a tame >bear following at my heels! Yup! That puzzle turned out to be a horrible syntax hunt. -s -- Copyright 1999, All rights reserved. Peter Seebach / se...@plethora.net C/Unix wizard, Pro-commerce radical, Spam fighter. Boycott Spamazon! Will work for interesting hardware. http://www.plethora.net/~seebs/ Visit my new ISP <URL:http://www.plethora.net/> --- More Net, Less Spam!
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From: se...@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) Subject: Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave" Date: 1999/09/23 Message-ID: <P8sG3.309$lq3.36082@ptah.visi.com> X-Deja-AN: 528683644 References: <7sccil$l67$1@hades.rz.uni-sb.de> <37EA2C8F.8B731688@erols.com> X-Complaints-To: ab...@plethora.net X-Trace: ptah.visi.com 938102447 205.166.146.8 (Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:00:47 CDT) Organization: Plethora . Net - More net, less spam! NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:00:47 CDT Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit