On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Kent Schumacher wrote: > I used to play adventure off a remote mainframe with my little green > screen terminal and 110 baud modem. It really built tension when you > had to wait for each character to display to see what your fate was... > > Prior to that I played it on a teletype, but the noise was driving me > crazy so I had to quit until I could upgrade to a terminal... Man, that's like when I played Dungeon from a VAX on a DECWriterII over 300bps. To be on a VAX in the late 70's was a big deal, but since Dad worked for DEC, it was what we had access to. When he got the VT100 at home, we saved a few trees. Or maybe then is when we moved up from the acoustic coupled modem to a Racal-Vadic 300 baud. Even better was the addition of the Robin motherboard, which converted the VT100 to a Z-80 based CP/M microcomputer! I still have a pile of old 360k 5 1/4" disks for that. To complete the trip down nostalgia way, I remember writing Fortran on a TI portable terminal, that looked like an oversize portable mechanical typewriter and weighed about 50 lbs. It also used thermal paper! Any one else ever play Lunar Lander using a lightpen? ;) Cheers, Phil -- Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org