I remember playing STARTREK in a common 3270 terminal room and getting that
same message. I also remember covering up the screen when certain mgmt
types came by checking on new programmer analysts. Boy, what a memory
flashback. Thanks to all for the memories from a loooong time ago.
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Stephen Frazier
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"Your ship has blown up! The vile Klingon hordes will conquer the
universe." was the message that
STARTREK put out when you lost.
Phil Smith III wrote:
> 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
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