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From: "Naveen Nathan" <tuhs@t.lastninja.net>
To: "Ken Thompson via TUHS" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Gaming on early Unix
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 19:40:31 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee06e52e-5b06-4a72-9842-3805143e4540@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG=a+riKQr1ohYMjt3=XE5CkFypoH-+u1H51Q3EVMWJFtZkkPQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, at 11:35 AM, Ken Thompson via TUHS wrote:
> in the early 70s, noone had seen a computer.
> i had a terminal at home and we were giving
> a dinner party. i wrote several games for the
> party from the back of an off-the-shelf puzzle
> book.

Hi Ken,

I might be too young to understand the communication
technologies that existed in the 70s.

How did the terminal connect back to the main computer?

Did you have a fixed line or did you dial-in over POTS (plain old telephone service)?

Thanks,
Naveen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-12-09  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-06 10:45 Gabriel Diaz
2019-12-06 11:01 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-12-06 14:23 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-12-06 14:48   ` A. P. Garcia
2019-12-08  7:48   ` arnold
2019-12-08 19:54     ` Clem Cole
2019-12-06 16:19 ` ron
2019-12-06 16:39   ` Richard Salz
2019-12-06 16:54     ` Dan Cross
2019-12-09  0:05     ` Steve Johnson
2019-12-09  0:35       ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-12-09  0:46         ` Adam Thornton
2019-12-09  2:03           ` Rob Pike
2019-12-09  2:10             ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-12-09  2:15               ` Rob Pike
2019-12-09  2:19                 ` Ken Thompson via TUHS
2019-12-09  8:41                   ` Gabriel Diaz
2019-12-09 11:17               ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-12-09  8:40         ` Naveen Nathan [this message]
2019-12-06 17:24   ` Arthur Krewat
2019-12-06 17:58   ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2019-12-06 22:12     ` ron
2019-12-07  0:04       ` Rob Pike
2019-12-07  1:22 ` Adam Thornton
2019-12-07  1:28   ` Adam Thornton
2019-12-10  0:30 Doug McIlroy
2019-12-10  5:08 ` Adam Thornton

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