On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 8:11 PM, David Griffith <d...@661.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Feb 2016, Chuck Guzis wrote: > > Okay, so "dumb terminal games" do require a terminal of some sort. Back >> in the day of punched cards, however, terminals were expensive and not >> frequently encountered, but for the operator's console. >> >> Given that, how many games can one think of that were played with card >> input and printer output? >> >> I can think of lots of character art, but not one single game. >> > > I'm pretty sure someone has done chess that way. > > I remember seeing someone in the mid '70s working on a Monopoly game using punch cards and printout on a CDC 6000 class machine. -- Charles
