2 Mar
2013
2 Mar
'13
9:34 p.m.
On 03/02/2013 11:19 PM, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
Early slide rule use apparently doesn't teach people to end questions
with question marks though.
As an aside:
here's an incredible game that teaches 8-year-olds algebra:
http://dragonboxapp.com/
I attempted to see if a demo was possible along with the possible
cost of the application. It seems to still be in development, so
perhaps that is the reason.
Is there a description and an estimate of how much it costs. SST (Super Star Trek) from the late 1970s (written in
F IV)
was an excellent game to play on a PDP-11 terminal to learn
geometry. Any user had to be able to calculate graph co-ordinates
over a two dimensional galaxy of 8 by 8 sectors with each sector
having 10 by 10 elements for a total of 800 elements.
SST is available at dbit as one of the RT-11 games.
One of the terminals on my PDP-11/70 exhibit at VCF-East last year was
logged in and running SST, under RSTS/E.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA