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Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
> 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.

some past posts mentioning Ralph
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008e.html#74 Convergent Technologies vs Sun
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#52 Happy DEC-10 Day
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017h.html#73 Demolishing the Tile Turtle

At SJR, I worked with Jim Gray and Vera Watson (married to John
McCarthy) on System/R (original sql/relational) ... some past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr

... that was before the Annapurna climb ... Vera never came back, she is
still on Annapurna.
http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12197934500/print

and Jim disappeared off San Fran.
https://www.wired.com/2007/07/ff-jimgray-2/

I first saw Adventure at TYMSHARE ... TYMSHARE got copy from SAIL for
their PDP10 and then ported to VM370/CMS. I got a copy+source and made
available on the internal network ... some old email
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008s.html#email780321
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006y.html#email780405b
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#email780414
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007m.html#email780517
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007o.html#email790912

some adventure game timeline
http://adventure.if-legends.org/timeline.html
... mentions some IBM mainframe
http://adventure.if-legends.org/Mainframe_adventures.html#Acheton 

but doesn't refer to TYMSHARE or some other mainframe versions.
Internal inside IBM, I made the executable available ... and for anybody
that finished all points, I would send the source. Within a couple
months there were PLI versions with a couple hundred extra points.

quicky web search
http://www.spitenet.com/cave/
with
http://www.spitenet.com/cave/images/AdventureMap.jpg

other ref
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure

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