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From: modrid@panix.com (Modrid)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: Time for DOOM to be Freeware?
Date: 4 Aug 1994 02:03:31 -0400
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Previously, Richard Ward wrote:
> BASIC, you're lucky! Mine came in a comic book box full of punch cards. I
> had to take thenm down to the local university and have them put it through a
> card reader, transfer it to 9-track tape and then send it to me over a 1200
> baud modem connection. And to top it off, it was in PILOT!
Really? Mine came on parchment. Written in the ancient tongue of
Summeria. I had to translate it, upload it to a TRS-80 model 1 on a
cassette drive, and run it from there. Man are those pixels wide.
--
Brendan Fitzpatrick "We know the Future happens like the past
modrid@panix.com because in the past, it happened like the past."