🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 9:32:53 AM UTC-5, George R. Gonzalez wrote:
> Waay back around 1982, I had the rare privilidge to buy one of the
> pre-peroduction prototypes of the not too famous Convergent Technology
> workstation.  It was a OEM product, resold under various brands, maybe
> Burroughs, NCR, and Univac?  Not sure.
> 
> Anyway, at the time it was a STEAL, I got a 8086 CPU, a 14megabyte hard
> disk, 256K bytes of RAM, a green-screen hi-res (for the time) monitor, and a
> fancy keyboard.  (No mouse), (no graphics, eacept downloadable character
> font graphics).  No case, just open chassis, open monitor, three uncased
> power supplies, all screwed onto a sheet of plywood.
> 
> It was a STEAL for only $3000.
> 
> 
> It had a very advanced operating system for the age.  While PC's barely had
> PCDOS, this OS had a non-modal screen editor, long file names, a form-based
> command processor, a fuss-free local area network and file-sharing,
> spreadsheet, good word processor, FORTRAN, BASIC and Pascal compilers
> (shoddy Msoft ones). Text windows.,
> an awesome assembler, system source code, custom build system options, and
> more that I've forgotten.
> 
> In My Humble Opinion, a HECK of a lot better computer than the IBM PC.
> 
> But as we know the PC won out.
> 
> 
> 
> And oh yes, an addictive and fun "rats maze" game that I played for hours
> and hours.  Pretty good graphics considering it was all character-font
> based.
> 
> Anybody remember that game?  Anybody have the source code to it?
> 
> Drool....  drool...
> 
> ( Eventually after a few years the custom hard disk controller died and I
> tossed the whole shebang in the dumpster.  Sad, but that seemed like the
> only option at the time.)
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> George

I remember the game fondly as well. I worked as a district admin in the Atlanta Regional office and spent many hours after work and during lunch hour playing the game. Would love to get a copy to play now.

If you do find a copy / version that would play I would be ecstatic...

Dave