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Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")

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From: jmfb...
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 00:00
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In article <23yadiw...@dragon.advancedsw.com>,
   James Powell <ja...@advancedsw.com> wrote:
>
>alde...@netcom12.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III) writes:
>> In article <qh4sgeg1...@ruckus.brouhaha.com> Eric Smith
>> <eric-no-s...@brouhaha.com> writes:
>> 
>> >Speaking of the classic Crowther-Woods 350 point game (as distinct from 
the
>> >zillion-odd later "enhanced" games), does anyone have a copy of the map 
that
>> >someone at DEC drew?  It had each room represented as an octogon with
>> >additional arrows sticking out of the left of the top face and the 
right of
>> >the bottom face for the up and down directions.  IIRC, it was actually 
given a
>> >DEC engineering drawing designation.
>> 
>> Somewhere, I still have a 2-page XEROX-reduced copy  of a copy of a copy 
of a
>> .... for who knows how many iterations--given to me when I first went to 
work
>> for the UChicago Comp Center in 1977.
><snip>
>
>Funny, I went to work at one of the the UChicago computing centers in
>1987, and Adventure (and TOPS-10) still had a strong presence there.

UofC ran TOPS-10?  I thought they were a -20 site.
<snip>
/BAH

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From: jmfb...@aol.com
Subject: Re: ADVENT map (was Re: Crowther (pre-Woods) "Colossal Cave")
Date: 1999/10/05
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