cctalk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 17

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Fri Oct 18 14:26:06 CDT 2019


On 10/18/19 12:06 PM, Dr Iain Maoileoin via cctalk wrote:
>
> Chuck, I am Scottish, I have never been to Berkeley!  I just cant remember the history.  I remember playing the game with a bunch of post-graduates.
> I was either a post-grad or perhaps an early lecturer in the Uni.  That places it square in the mid-80s.    I did spend most of my time researching.
> The games would have appeared on tapes from other places…..  I am hunting around amongst the post-grads to see if any of them can tell me
> where it came from.
> 
> I knew the game as “search” in that that is what you typed in to start it.  To keep the undergrads out if it we had to put both passwords and time-locks in
> the code….

Well, how about a phrase that you can recall?   I can see if it crops up
in my archives.

--Chuck



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