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X002548
Not Just a Number
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kselvia
Aged Yak Warrior
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Posted - 2004-09-09 : 13:35:27
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| Are any of you old enough (and geeky enough) to remember online MUD's? (text based internet games.)--KenI want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers. |
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Pat Phelan
Posting Yak Master
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Posted - 2004-09-09 : 14:13:59
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| Heck, I've written Multi-User Dungeons, and maintained two of the very best.-PatP |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
Posted - 2004-09-09 : 14:32:09
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| What year we talking about?Make sure to see if it's playing in your areahttp://www.pbs.org/kcts/videogamerevolution/airdates.html?I was saving my games to "tape" on a tty off an pdp-8eBrett8-) |
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kselvia
Aged Yak Warrior
526 Posts |
Posted - 2004-09-09 : 14:47:48
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| Late 80's early 90's. I wrote the mud Genocide in 91' if you ever heard of it. Still running today as a matter of fact. www.geno.orgYep I had my own tape of StarTrek that ran on VT52 on a PDP-1170. I was a student but managed to snag it from a logged on operators account. Operations mounted a tape for me supposing it was for a teacher. That game was like a virus for the College after that.--KenI want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers. |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
Posted - 2004-09-09 : 15:00:26
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| Stumbled across while looking for old code....http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/pdp8/Late 1980's...no wonder....I was at a blues club everynight...and at work every morning bangin out cobol..writing rexx programs, and blasting klingons...? for help...I think it wa 1,5 for warp 5...2 was fire photons...3 was the "map"?Brett8-) |
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kselvia
Aged Yak Warrior
526 Posts |
Posted - 2004-09-09 : 15:10:24
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| I wrote a program to take control of every terminal device in the school that was not logged in and simulate failed login attempts and record usernames and passwords. Security (what security?) seemed an after-thought in those days. For years I thought I invented that technique. Good thing I turned into one of the "Good Guys"--KenI want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers. |
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Pat Phelan
Posting Yak Master
187 Posts |
Posted - 2004-09-09 : 16:11:12
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Originally posted by X002548
I was saving my games to "tape" on a tty off an pdp-8e
BASIC, Focal, or Pal-D ?-PatP |
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X002548
Not Just a Number
15586 Posts |
Posted - 2004-09-09 : 17:11:13
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That was in BASIC....but when I got to the university they should(sp showed*) me PL/1 on punch cards....Brett8-)* English classes, what english classes? |
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Pat Phelan
Posting Yak Master
187 Posts |
Posted - 2004-09-09 : 18:19:00
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| Yeah. Everybody thought that using program cards for the 029 was geeky until I figured out enough about HASP to be able to submit jobs from the HP-2000 and/or from the PR1ME 750... Man, that was livin' large in those days!-PatP |
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