ProcTech SOL & Trek80 - yo, Bob Wood!

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sun Aug 16 19:32:59 1998

On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Tony Duell wrote:

> > Games are still typically the first program that anybody writes for a new
> > machine. I suspect Trek was a port of the much earlier minicomputer game,
> > but what you're asking is basically "in the time since the first
> > microcomputer was built in 1971, were there no games until 1976?". No way.
>
> A data point. I have a list of the programs in the Intel user library
> (how I wish I had the programs...), and there are several games mentioned
> in there. Things like NIM, Life, Blackjack, etc. A few of them are dated
> from around 1975.

Somewhat related point: the Nicolet monster I brought home a couple months
back came with tons of paper tape software, and had a considerable number
of games tapes. This for a computer that was intended strictly for
scientific use :)

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ever onward.

                September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2.0
                   See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
                        [Last web site update: 08/09/98]
Received on Sun Aug 16 1998 - 19:32:59 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:30:44 BST