Yes that was what I was thinking of i was always struck by the fact the book (in 1980) had the line "a personal computer would be useful" Ironically Elite was

Yes that was what I was thinking of i was always struck by the fact the book (in 1980) had the line "a personal computer would be useful" Ironically Elite was a rip off of the basic starship combat rules in Traveller and i did try and write a game on our PDP 11/03 / VT55 using Traveler as a base.