.The Most Dangerous Sporting Event

Back in 1975 I bought my first computer, an IBM 5100 for $15,000 to automate my vending machine business.¹ The first computer program I ever wrote was The Game of Life. That was actually quite easy to program [using BASIC] and for my next effort I wanted something of a challenge. My brother Pete was attending Rutgers in Newark at the time and told me that the most popular game at the computer department was Star Trek, a text based game written in BASIC [for a full description see Wiki], which he printed out for me.

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