From:	"Bob Jonkman" <bjonkman AT sobac DOT com>
Organization:	SOBAC Microcomputer Services
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Sat, 4 Nov 2000 00:27:55 -0500
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Subject:	Early gaming [was: FDISK]
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I want to tell you what Robert W Moss <opendos AT delorie DOT com> said
about "RE: FDISK" on 2 Nov 2000, at 23:17

> Trivia question:  
> 
> What was the first do something program run on an Altair 8080, 
> (SN #003), and  what was the name of the score and the encore? 
> 
> How was it accomplished?

WAG:  I remember a program called "Kill The Bit".  It was loaded in 
by keying in all the instructions from the front-panel switches, and 
the game consisted of a single LED lit sequentially along the data 
register lights (think of a movie marquee with only one bulb lit at a 
time).  You won the game by flicking a data switch under the lit LED. 
 The score, obviously, was either 0 or 1...

It was harder than it sounded.  Even at a measly 1 MHz, that LED 
could MOVE!

> BONUS POINTS:  Where and when did it happen?  
>                                    Who was the perpetrator?

I played it on a buddy's computer in Burlington, ON, in about 1975, 
but I don't think that's what you mean...

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