Thanks for the trip down memory lane
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I was a Grad student in 1977 and '78 at Indiana University. We had a version of Star trek that ran on the CDC-6600 computer. I Spent many hours wondering in space, and having a lot of fun. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)
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I was a Grad student in 1977 and '78 at Indiana University. We had a version of Star trek that ran on the CDC-6600 computer. I Spent many hours wondering in space, and having a lot of fun. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)
Much of 1978 was spent listening to Rush Hemispheres and Van Halen's first record, good times indeed.
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I was a Grad student in 1977 and '78 at Indiana University. We had a version of Star trek that ran on the CDC-6600 computer. I Spent many hours wondering in space, and having a lot of fun. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)
That reminds me of a Star trek game I found on the NC State U bulletin board in the late 80's. I liked that game. I wonder how many other games like that are still out there somewhere.
INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
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I was a Grad student in 1977 and '78 at Indiana University. We had a version of Star trek that ran on the CDC-6600 computer. I Spent many hours wondering in space, and having a lot of fun. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)
You just reminded me. There was an old "adventure game" (text based), I Forget the name, had a Z in it. But my absolute favorite to this day: "You are in a room with blood stained walls, there is a grate on the floor" > Lick Walls "You're Gross!" -- LITERALLY ROTFLMAO. Realizing that the programmer had to program this "eventuality", and that I tripped it. It IGNITED my desire to program. We had a paper diagram of all the rooms.
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You just reminded me. There was an old "adventure game" (text based), I Forget the name, had a Z in it. But my absolute favorite to this day: "You are in a room with blood stained walls, there is a grate on the floor" > Lick Walls "You're Gross!" -- LITERALLY ROTFLMAO. Realizing that the programmer had to program this "eventuality", and that I tripped it. It IGNITED my desire to program. We had a paper diagram of all the rooms.
The name is Zork.
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That reminds me of a Star trek game I found on the NC State U bulletin board in the late 80's. I liked that game. I wonder how many other games like that are still out there somewhere.
INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
Is this the one? Internet Arcade: Star Trek : Sega : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive[^] Archive.org has so many software packages it is amazing. Check it out.
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That reminds me of a Star trek game I found on the NC State U bulletin board in the late 80's. I liked that game. I wonder how many other games like that are still out there somewhere.
INTP "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." - Edsger Dijkstra "I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. " - Daniel Boone
John R. Shaw wrote: That reminds me of a Star trek game I found on the NC State U bulletin board in the late 80's. I liked that game. Ah yes, I spent many a late night playing that game at the University of Texas, as I waited for my jobs to run on the mainframe in grAD SCHOOL. CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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I was a Grad student in 1977 and '78 at Indiana University. We had a version of Star trek that ran on the CDC-6600 computer. I Spent many hours wondering in space, and having a lot of fun. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)
Cool. I worked at the computer center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the early 80's on a group of four Vaxen. There was a CDC-6600 next door to the Vax area.
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I was a Grad student in 1977 and '78 at Indiana University. We had a version of Star trek that ran on the CDC-6600 computer. I Spent many hours wondering in space, and having a lot of fun. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. :)
In 77 and 78 I was working as a 2nd shift computer operator for a small company while taking programming classes during the day, and I spent many an hour converting the Star Trek game from David Ahl's 101 Basic Computer Games to RPG so I could play it in the unused partition on the IBM System/3 we had there.
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John R. Shaw wrote: That reminds me of a Star trek game I found on the NC State U bulletin board in the late 80's. I liked that game. Ah yes, I spent many a late night playing that game at the University of Texas, as I waited for my jobs to run on the mainframe in grAD SCHOOL. CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software