27 Feb
2016
27 Feb
'16
8:21 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:11 PM, David Griffith <dave at 661.org> wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Okay, so "dumb terminal games" do require a terminal of some sort. Back
I remember seeing someone in the mid '70s working on a Monopoly game using
punch cards and printout on a CDC 6000 class machine.
-- Charles
in the day of punched cards, however, terminals
were expensive and not
frequently encountered, but for the operator's console.
Given that, how many games can one think of that were played with card
input and printer output?
I can think of lots of character art, but not one single game.
I'm pretty sure someone has done chess that way.