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Bill Gates was so addicted to Minesweeper that his coworker had a robot set an unbreakable record

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    Kent Sharkey
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    Windows Central[^]:

    Gates would go into other people's offices to play Minesweeper, since the game had been removed from his PC.

    Is that why they hide all the explosives in the Windows source code?

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      Windows Central[^]:

      Gates would go into other people's offices to play Minesweeper, since the game had been removed from his PC.

      Is that why they hide all the explosives in the Windows source code?

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      Duncan Edwards Jones
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      You'd think Gorilla.bas was addictive enough.

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        You'd think Gorilla.bas was addictive enough.

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        Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

        You'd think Gorilla.bas was addictive enough.

        Was that the gorilla throwing the bananas?

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          Duncan Edwards Jones wrote:

          You'd think Gorilla.bas was addictive enough.

          Was that the gorilla throwing the bananas?

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          Yup - a demo program for Microsoft Basic.

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            You'd think Gorilla.bas was addictive enough.

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            Pete OHanlon
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            Ooh, I haven't thought about this one for a while.

            Advanced TypeScript Programming Projects

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              You'd think Gorilla.bas was addictive enough.

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              I actually miss that game.

              To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer

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                I actually miss that game.

                To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer

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                Needs a Virtual Reality reboot.

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