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Article #697720Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Xocyll
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 12:37
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 12:37
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Toby Newman <goo...@asktoby.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn spammer to utter "The Augury is good, the signs say: >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??! CP/M wasn't hardware, it's an operating system. Pre Dos. Xocyll -- I don't particularly want you to FOAD, myself. You'll be more of a cautionary example if you'll FO And Get Chronically, Incurably, Painfully, Progressively, Expensively, Debilitatingly Ill. So FOAGCIPPEDI. -- Mike Andrews responding to an idiot in asr
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