Panjack -> RE: OT-What was your first computer simulation (11/18/2014 3:48:24 PM)
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The first computer simulation I played, a baseball game, was one I wrote in maybe 1971 or 1972. I'm guessing I used Basic or Fortran. I connected to a mainframe computer from home using a phone and an acoustic coupler. The program was "stored" on paper tape which I had to feed into a reader on the dumb terminal (similar to a teletype machine) each time I connected. The only player input was to set lineups or to change the data the program used. It wasn't until maybe 1987 that I got my own PC. I think the first war game I played was a WWII submarine game but I can't remember much about it. I really haven't played many war games until WITP-AE...nor do I know much about military matters. The only computer game I've played more than briefly, that is before WITP-AE, has been Out Of The Park Baseball.
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