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- From: bob@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (robert s. richardson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: The PET
- Message-ID: <1h9n7gINNj2k@leela.CS.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 12:48:48 GMT
- Article-I.D.: leela.1h9n7gINNj2k
- References: <1992Dec22.131337.22119@zds-oem.zds.com> <BzpKBq.946@gabriel.keele.ac.uk>
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- In article <BzpKBq.946@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> u2d92@seq1.keele.ac.uk (MJ Gumbley) writes:
- >From article <1992Dec22.131337.22119@zds-oem.zds.com>, by benjamin@zds-oem.zds.com (Adam Benjamin):
- >> I vaguely remember playing some text adventure written in basic on a PET
- >> at the local Community college. I only remember falling into a pool that
- >> was full of mercury... anyway, What did (does?) PET stand for? anything?
- >> is it Pretty Electronic Thing? Programable Electronics & Transistors?
- >> What what?
- > As I recall, it stood for "Personal Electronic Translator" (Could have
- >been Transactor... hmmm...)
-
- It was "Personal Electronic Transactor", thus there was the popular
- programmer's magazine "Transactor" for Commodore computers (and the
- subsequent, ill fated Amiga Transactor, which I will always cherish
- and miss...) I remember that adventure game--I played an updated
- Commodore 64 version--To drain the pool of liquid mercury you had to
- turn a faucet somewhere. Also, does anyone remember what "Ritnew is
- a charming word" means in the context of that game? I do! :-)
-
- Bob Richardson
- bob@atlantis.cs.orst.edu
- (Embarassed at remembering lines from long-dead adventure games on 8-bit CPUs)
-