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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 09:30:19 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Leslie Pearson <lespea@MUZE.COM>
Subject: Games and XYZZY
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
I haven't heard about XYZZY in a long time. It reminds me of my college days. At WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) in 1980, a DEC-20 just arrived. Games (such as Adventure and Empire) were turned on after 11 PM at night Very few people had classes on Wednesdays, so people stayed up Tuesday nights to play games. (Everyone could have an account. People's account names were first initial(s) and last names, so we had tried to create an account for an exchange student, Kevin Garth Lingon (Klingon), and it was almost successful :))
In 1983, WPI was donated a Data General MV8000 (the machine documented in the book The Soul of A New Machine). If you typed XYZZY at the command prompt, it said nothing happens :)
Do Adventure and Zork exist for a PC?
Leslie Pearson
lespea@muze.com
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Leslie Pearson <lespea@MUZE.COM>
Subject: Games and XYZZY
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
I haven't heard about XYZZY in a long time. It reminds me of my college days. At WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) in 1980, a DEC-20 just arrived. Games (such as Adventure and Empire) were turned on after 11 PM at night Very few people had classes on Wednesdays, so people stayed up Tuesday nights to play games. (Everyone could have an account. People's account names were first initial(s) and last names, so we had tried to create an account for an exchange student, Kevin Garth Lingon (Klingon), and it was almost successful :))
In 1983, WPI was donated a Data General MV8000 (the machine documented in the book The Soul of A New Machine). If you typed XYZZY at the command prompt, it said nothing happens :)
Do Adventure and Zork exist for a PC?
Leslie Pearson
lespea@muze.com
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