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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes:

> On 1/2/2018 8:05 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>> Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes:

>>> Okay, okay... maybe I asked this before on <a.f.c.>, but it must have been
>>> quite a while ago.

>>> The following map for Colossal Cave Adventure was dredged up from somewhere
>>> on the internet.  It was obviously done with a pen plotter.  So does anyone
>>> know who plotted it and where???

>>> https://tinyurl.com/ycjwvlc8

>> Hunh.  That's a new one on me.  I was expecting the map done using SUDS (the
>> Stanford University Drawing System) at SAIL.  I had a multi-generation
>> xerographic copy that came to UChicago from DEC; imagine my delighted
>> surprise on encountering a full-sized (D- or E-paper from a plotter roll)
>> posted in the office of the Director of LOTS when I went to work there at
>> Stanford several years later.

> You must mean Ralph E. Gorin, when he was head of LOTS.  ISTM you did 
> mention this in passing... in a previous <a.f.c.> post.  If *I* was 
> *not* so absentminded...  I should be able to remember details!  :-(

Yup.  Ralph was the half time Director of LOTS.  The System Mannger and System
Programmer were full time positions, as was the administrative assistant.  The
original director was John McCarthy (as in LISP, SAIL--the organization, not
the language--, etc.), and Ralph was the original system manager, to get LOTS
started (Ralph's idea).  By the time I left, the title was "LOTS TOPS-20
Systems Programmer" and we also had systems programmers for VM/SP (possibly
HPO) for the 4381s and Unix systems administrators for the Ultrix, SunOS, and
AIX systems.

> I've heard of other "lost" maps for Adventure... including one more map 
> done on a pen plotter... done by a guy in England (Mike Arnautov) who 
> also lost his map *and* the source data.

> Also I think BAH once mentioned of a map that floated around DEC... 
> drawn with hexagons for rooms.  The hexagons were drawn using a plastic 
> graphics template.  No one seems to have a copy of this map anymore...

It was octagons, with an up arrow on the right hand end of the north side and a
down arrow on the left hand end of the south side.  That was the map of which I
had an Nth generation copy--we got our copy of Adventure at UChicago when one
of the applications people at the Comp Center went to Marlboro for classes; he
was later the head of the ARTFL project.

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