Dumb Terminal games (was Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine)

Brent Hilpert hilpert at cs.ubc.ca
Sun Feb 28 01:37:35 CST 2016


On 2016-Feb-27, at 8:23 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 02/27/2016 08:11 PM, David Griffith wrote:
> 
>>> I can think of lots of character art, but not one single game.
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure someone has done chess that way.
> 
> Dunno, my first encounter with Chess was Chess 3.0--it interacted using the operator's console.  But I suppose a game state could have been filed away and resurrected for the next move.  It's been too long.

 Bernstein's chess (1957) for the IBM 704 used front-panel switch input with printer output.
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT_Un3xo1qE



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