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Article #697719Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Toby Newman
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:52
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:52
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On 2017-04-25, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4/17/2017 1:50 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: >> The first computer game I owned - barring whatever came on the >> "Getting Started" diskettes for my Apple IIc - was Zork I. It wasn't >> the first video game I played - that was probably Pong - or even the >> first computer game > > For the personal side, my Mom's boyfriends had a CP/M home-made computer > I got to play some games on, Wumpus, some economic kingdom games (buy x > grain to keep your population up, get taxes, try to keep them happy), > and my favorite, Trek which had ASCII graphics instead of just words! She must have had very particular taste in men for them all to have the same model CP/M. Or was it one CP/M shared between them? What kind of a home arrangement are you talking about here??! -- -Toby Add the word afiduluminag to the subject to circumvent my email filters.
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