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Welmoed Sisson <sis...@erols.com> writes:

>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!

Gee, I remember working in the 'Computer game' room back then...  And then
I was head of computer games for noreascon -- provided a PDT-11/150
running ZORK and a GT40 running lunar lander (downloaded from the PDT). 
For a number of years following that, I provided a pdp-11 running RSTS and
a bunch of terminals and all sorts of games (I still have the system).

One of the LARPs actually included the computer system and a task which
had to be performed on it into their game...

>  Trying to explain to a bunch of 7th and 8th graders just how big a
>deal it was to play a game on a computer is like pounding sand.

Tell me about it... back then it was a big deal... nowadays they
look at you and say, "So?".

					Megan Gentry
					Former RT-11 Developer

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