On 16 Aug 2007 17:11:59 GMT, Default User wrote:

>> That code is older than me.
>
> Really? I didn't know you were such a youngster. I was in high school.

I stand corrected. I was 8 when that game first came out. And
that's when I started playing it (at Westinghouse on some unknown
text terminal hooked up to Chicago).

> Adventure wasn't my entry into the evil world of text-adventure, that
> was Zork (on a CP/M machine with 8-in floppies!). Zork is without a
> doubt the reason I'm doing what I do today. It has much to answer for.

I had Zork on those same PDP's. Then later on the TRS-80's and
Kaypros (both running CP/M).

Thanks to those games, I was probably one of the only 10
year-olds that could how to type 25+ words a minute (by hunting
and pecking - which I still do to this day).

-sw