[rescue] Cool new gadget

[Phil Stracchino]

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 07:57:19PM -0800, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- Jeffrey Nonken <jeff_work at nonken.net> wrote:
> 
> > I use to play Space War on ASR-33 TTYs on a CDC-6400 at college in
> > 1975. There were a few other games, too, but that was my favorite.
> 
> Star trek on an ASR-33.
> 
> Lunar lander - once or twice.
> 
> hunt the wumpus, lots.
> 
> And tried adventure, but no one knew anything about it, so without
> hints, is sucked... ;^)


In the late 70s, I had access to a system at Hatfield Polytechnic
composed of a PDP-10 and a PDP-11/70 linked by a custom interface called
HETTI.  There was a Star Trek game on the system, which the operators
hated and would kill whenever they found it running because it consumed
128K of core.  I played it over the "fast" (300 baud) link from
Stevenage College of Further Education, and according to *OUR* ops, I
was the only known person ever to win it and save the galaxy from the
Klingons without getting killed by the Hatfield ops.  :)


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