I never played "Adventure" or "Football" but in 1974 in Dallas Texas at a Service bureau where I worked as an operator we had an IBM 370/135 and 370/145 both running DOS/VS with a typewriter and paper console. But we played "StarTrek" or something very close on a MACRO 4 computer we had for other applications, there were 2 screens and 2 players could play against each other, and here is where my memory gets a little fuzzy on more details. Bill Munson VM System Programmer 201-418-7588
Phil Smith III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> 06/04/2008 09:11 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System <[email protected]> To [email protected] cc Subject Re: Seeking (former) Adventurers Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No, I meant 1970. It was one of the first games that ran on the computer centers TSO system. (It >seems like it had another name before it was called TSO but I don't remember it.) Startrek and >Football were the others. They all appeared about 1969. I don't remember which was first. Adventure >was written in PL/I and Startrek was in Fortran. Football was in another language. (Cobol? or Basic? I think FOOTBALL was in BASIC. The early ADVENT that I played on VM/370 back at UofW was in FORTRAN, not PL/I. What I remember from STARTREK but haven't been able to verify is "Your ship has blown up! The vile Klingon hordes will conquer the universe." Anyone? ObAnecdote: I got my start programming when I discovered that SUMER (aka Hammurabi) was written in BASIC (not that I knew what BASIC was). It only played for two "years" (cycles) and I wanted to play longer, so I hacked it. No manual, no idea wtf I was doing, just played with it. The start of a long descent... ...phsiii *************************** IMPORTANT NOTE***************************** The opinions expressed in this message and/or any attachments are those of the author and not necessarily those of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates ("BBH"). There is no guarantee that this message is either private or confidential, and it may have been altered by unauthorized sources without your or our knowledge. Nothing in the message is capable or intended to create any legally binding obligations on either party and it is not intended to provide legal advice. BBH accepts no responsibility for loss or damage from its use, including damage from virus. ************************************************************************
