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Any idea why there were @@'s in a lot of the messages? If you left @ as your TIP intercept character you had to type it twice, but only one @ would end up being
by DonHopkins 2y ago
Any idea why there were @@'s in a lot of the messages? If you left @ as your TIP intercept character you had to type it twice, but only one @ would end up being sent. Those @@'s were in the email archive, and I can't remember ever seeing that before.
Speaking of intercept characters, did you know Will Crowther, one of the authors of Adventure, wrote the "Users Guide to the Terminal IMP"? You're in a maze of twisty little IMPs!
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA014398.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA014398.pdf
Don Woods, the other author of Adventure, is a great PostScript programmer! I worked with him at Sun on NeWS, but earlier he was DON@AI, so occasionally he'd get weird email intended for me.
http://www.icynic.com/~don/ http://www.icynic.com/~don/
Here's his Spider card game for NeWS, entirely written in PostScript:
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/news-tape/fun/spider/spider.ps https://www.donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/news-tape/fun/s...
Maybe you could convert it to run in a laser printer, but it would sure use a lot of paper!
- gumby 2y ago> Any idea why there were @@'s in a lot of the messages? If you left @ as your TIP intercept character you had to type it twice, but only one @ would end up being sent. I don’t remember either. Could be an artifact of all the file translation over the years, or even early cruddy OCR. None of the folks in that list would have been using TIPs — ^R mode was added after KTVs were deployed.