Now there are some memories! We played Star Trek on the University of Iowa Engineering mainframe back in 1976. Between sessions, you saved your game on punch tape and took the loop home with you.
Friendly Regards, Mike -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:20 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man Pacman, Excitebike, Galaga, MechWarrior, taking me back! Go back a bit further to Zork - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork. Here is an interesting story: I was an IBM Field Engineer in my previous life. When I first started there, I maintained System/360 mainframes for the large banks in LA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_360 We loaded and ran two games on the system back in 1979, Zork and Startrek. LOL, the banks "timeshared" the system and tracked usage in order to bill each department. One day they asked why engineering was running so many diagnostics :) -RickG On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Mark Nash - Lists <markl...@uwol.net> wrote: > Used to go down to Laguna Beach CA with a group. They had a LAN system with > full-surround pods & intercom to your teammates. Had mech battles > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David E. Smith" <d...@mvn.net> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:41 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] Google Pac Man > > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:33, Robert West <robert.w...@just-micro.com> > wrote: >> They have a version of the arcade joy stick and button board to plug into >> the computer if you are using MAME or other arcade emulators. I purchased >> one for the wife a couple of years back so she could play some god awful >> game called Elevator Action on her laptop. Game sucks but the X-Arcade >> deal >> is pretty sweet. > > I know. One of these weeks I'll buy one of their big dual joysticks, > hook it up to the PS3, and have a wild Super Street Fighter IV party. > > David Smith > MVN.net > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
