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Originally Posted by RoxanneToto
Playing Star Trek on a computer with no monitor? That sounds very intriguing to me, I’d love to know more about how that worked!
Hehe, I remember my parent’s old rotary phone - I actually bought a proper landline phone to go in my new flat. It looks like a rotary phone, but the numbers are all separate buttons.
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The computers were housed in a building separate from any other building on campus there was a thick cable that connected to a army green paper feeder with the box of attached with holes on the side that fed into the modem. There was a typewriter attached. The whole game was played by numbers. You were in a hostile territory doing enemy fire on Klingons. You typed your moved into the modem then waited 15-20 minutes for the computer to reply. Then typed your next moves. I always ended up destroying the enterprise. It was kinda like the kobayashi Maru , I didn’t know anyone who won. We always had alcohol to pass the time so that could be a factor,….so could the fact that none of us were computer science or math majors. We were all in the arts field, but loved Star Trek. The games took place after 7 at night when the computer opened up to general use. This was in 1977.