POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Long threads : Re: Long threads Server Time
6 Oct 2024 09:24:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Long threads  
From: Thomas de Groot
Date: 30 Jul 2016 03:04:08
Message: <579c5168@news.povray.org>
On 30-7-2016 4:12, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
>> Not me. I am hopeless at games. I've played: Kingdom on a PDP11,
>> Colossus Cave on a unix machine connected to my terminal by Tropo
>> Scatter.
>
> Colossal Cave Adventure - I have yet to play much of it.
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/colossal-cave-adventure/9wzdncrdlv4h
>
> I had access to an actual Vax once, but didn't have much in the way of
> legitimate reasons to use it for my job.
>

I have excellent memories about Colossal Cave! We played it at work over 
a telephone line to a Vax. The excuse was that it helped to learn the 
ins and outs of computer use and programming ;-) Surprisingly, it did, 
especially those people suspicious and afraid of all things digital at 
the time.

-- 
Thomas


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