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From: hshubs@cis.umassd.edu (Howard S Shubs)
Subject: Re: Need hints for original Colossal Cave Adventure
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In <21ii68$iq7@agate.berkeley.edu> darelc@ocf.berkeley.edu (Darel Wade Chastain) writes:

>Hey - I never heard of a 550 pt version! - I solved the original
>one on my old TRS-80 (purchased in 1979, put out by Microsoft.
>BTW, is this Microsoft's earliest product?  Or the oldest personal
>computer game?  It would be tough to beat.)


MS's first product was a BASIC interpreter, I believe.  Flight
Simulator, which was written by a company whose name escapes me
beats 1979 all to heck.


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