16 Aug
1998
16 Aug
'98
7:32 p.m.
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Somewhat related point: the Nicolet monster I brought home a couple months
back came with tons of paper tape software, and had a considerable number
of games tapes. This for a computer that was intended strictly for
scientific use :)
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Games are
still typically the first program that anybody writes for a new
machine. I suspect Trek was a port of the much earlier minicomputer game,
but what you're asking is basically "in the time since the first
microcomputer was built in 1971, were there no games until 1976?". No way.
A data point. I have a list of the programs in the Intel user library
(how I wish I had the programs...), and there are several games mentioned
in there. Things like NIM, Life, Blackjack, etc. A few of them are dated
from around 1975.