Hello Dwight, On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:25:44 -0500 GMT (17/07/02, 03:25 +0700 GMT), Dwight A Corrin wrote:
DAC> I think always. The games were more primitive of course back in days DAC> when computers required their own huge air conditioned rooms and DAC> ground to a halt on days when there were brown outs, and backups were DAC> reel to reel, etc, and you wrote your programs on a keypunch machine. That's how I started. Actually we didn't have brown outs or other such problems, because that was a prestigious (for the government) research facility, but that didn't make the computers less vulnerable. DAC> But there were games. But the computers were not *designed* to entertain. Programmers never grow up - so we built some games. It was a "don't let the boss see it" kind of thing. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Durch einen Lichtstrahl drangen in der Nacht zum Freitag unbekannte Taeter in den Supermarkt ein. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.61 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
