17 Nov
2003
17 Nov
'03
12:33 p.m.
At 08:40 AM 11/17/03 -0500, Joe wrote:
At 11:25 PM 11/16/03 -0600, you wrote:
Back in the late 70's I was writing some games on the first Atari 400 for
Programma International, and the guy that was the big hot shot on the PET
wrote the first generation of bomb blast software for the HP45 (I think 45,
maybe it was 65 or something). Strange guy, he worked on I think an Apple
II for a year in south america without a monitor, just using beeps etc to
test his code.
I don't think people outside of the top military realize just how close
nuclear war was during this period.
On Sunday, November 16, 2003, at 10:25 PM, Joe wrote:
Not that I know of. It's just very tightly controlled. It's frightening
to punch in some numbers and look at the effects (blast effects, crater
sizes, dosage, fallout rates, mortality rates, etc) of different type/size
weapons. I had the only (Nuclear) Weapon Effects ROM
outside of
the military
Pretty cool, it's not classified??