You have to remember that the majority of people with computers at this time had to be into this sort of thing just to get their computer booted. Much less load

You have to remember that the majority of people with computers at this time had to be into this sort of thing just to get their computer booted. Much less loading a game. > Turn on computer "You turn on the computer, after 3 minutes a glowing green block slowly flashes on the screen in front of you" > Wait "You wait a while. A glowing green block slowly flashes on the screen in front of you." ... I hope you had a mimeographed sheet of paper that would tell you to type "CLOAD VISICALC" Infocom games played a key role in my learning to be a programmer, sysadmin, hardware geek, network guru, etc. It is all about exploring what these machines can do. I remember poking around Infocom games with a hex editor looking for clues.