An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never Expect

Re:An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never ... by aidenn0 on Saturday October 27, 2012 @04:41PM (#4707173)

I forgot how big the minicomputer version was. They ended up splitting the CPM version into several games. Probably couldn't fit the whole thing on a single cassette.

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Re:An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never ... by primitur on Monday October 29, 2012 @04:38AM (#4711503)

IMHO, this was one of the lost magical things about tapes .. you could just endlessly add lots of them as you needed them, seamlessly even in those days. I recall loading rather large stuff, tape at a time, as an old-school operator in-training and so on ..

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Re:An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never ... by james2vegas on Saturday October 27, 2012 @11:54PM (#4708099)

s/cassette/floppy disk/

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