St Andrew's College

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by ColinWright • 14 years ago

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codeodor• 14 years ago

The line

> To read them back in, you fed the tape into the terminal and it simulated typing your source back into the computer.

reminded me of this story (which came at a much later date):

> A senior NASDAQ official saw Peterffy's setup and said Peterffy was breaking the rules: All orders had to be entered through the keyboard. He gave Petterfy's group one week to fix the problem.

> Peterffy and his engineers came up with a solution. They built a robot with rubber fingers that typed entries into the keyboard.

(from http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/27/159992076/a-father...)

Edit: It's a side note to the posted story, but it's interesting to me that we replace technical limitations with policy limitations.

okal• 14 years ago

"If you do things that make people happy, you will find a way to your own happiness."

While this has been true, in my limited experience, it can be a slippery slope. The, possibly unintended, message I got from the post is more along the lines of "Do things that you enjoy. You'll probably bump into a few people who enjoy the things you've done, which will make you even happier doing them."

JoeAltmaier2• 14 years ago

SO, this guy WROTE the original 'Adventure'? I saw it first in FORTRAN; how did that happen - he talks of programming in BASIC.

raganwald2• 14 years ago

I did not write THE adventure, I wrote AN adventure. I'm neither that old nor that creative!

Other games:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text-based_computer_ga...

cstross• 14 years ago

Yes, but now I know who to blame for all the time I lost playing TREK :)

(Thank you!)

jgh• 14 years ago

Hey Aurora.. If only my family had the money to send me to SAC! Williams had to do, instead.

raganwald2• 14 years ago

Scholarship, my friend...

ChrisArchitect• 14 years ago

wow, saw this come up on HN, did a doubletake. Toronto/York Region/Canada represent.

martinshen• 14 years ago

On a side note, I wish private schools (specifically like SAC, UCC, Crescent and others) would start showing the importance of programming at a young age.

leverbak• 14 years ago

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