[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

Remember this $hit? Seems crazy today.

That was the brand I smoked from age 18 to 22. I was up over 2 packs a day. Back then smoking was the cool thing to do and I jumped in with both feet. I got up to 2 pack a day.

The ads were everywhere. There were characters smoking on the TV shows and in the movies. Regardless of the surgeon general warning, smoking was everywhere.

One morning I woke up after a party the night before and I felt like $hit. Too much drinking and too much smoking. I looked in the mirror and said, "What the fk are you doing!?". That very day I quit the cigarettes cold turkey. Once of the best decisions of my life.

[sygazelle]

Originally Posted by vreihen16

Why do I suspect that the floppy disc media has turned into dry, flaky rust powder from sitting 40 years?????

Maybe so. I'll let you know when I finally get around to getting it out. I'm really interested the games, not the floppy discs. The games were on cartridges that I plugged in as I recall.

[M_Six]

Originally Posted by wdb

Speaking of ASCII there was another game they had access to. They were programming nerds for GE Aerospace and had mainframe terminals at home. There was a text-based game called "Colossal Cave Adventure." You navigated through the cave using commands such as "GO LEFT", and clues were given after each move such as:

YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING. AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND DOWN A GULLY.

YOU ARE IN A MAZE OF TWISTY LITTLE PASSAGES, ALL DIFFERENT.

I remember a Commodore 64 game like that where you had to get out of a building before a time bomb went off.

[Vindicator3]

The king of text-only games in my life was Zork.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork

[Esteban]

Originally Posted by 3.0L

Remember this $hit? Seems crazy today.

My mom smoked those, with the charcoal filter.

[vreihen16]

Originally Posted by wdb

Speaking of ASCII there was another game they had access to. They were programming nerds for GE Aerospace and had mainframe terminals at home. There was a text-based game called "Colossal Cave Adventure."

<--- Finished both the original Don Woods 350 point version and the later 550 point version.

xyzzy.....

[3.0L]

Originally Posted by sygazelle

That was the brand I smoked from age 18 to 22. I was up over 2 packs a day. Back then smoking was the cool thing to do and I jumped in with both feet. I got up to 2 pack a day.

The ads were everywhere. There were characters smoking on the TV shows and in the movies. Regardless of the surgeon general warning, smoking was everywhere.

One morning I woke up after a party the night before and I felt like $hit. Too much drinking and too much smoking. I looked in the mirror and said, "What the fk are you doing!?". That very day I quit the cigarettes cold turkey. Once of the best decisions of my life.

I started smoking about halfway through my 13 month Army tour in Germany
and continued through my 12 month tour in Vietnam. Cigarettes were cheap
at the base PX in Germany and free in Vietnam. I quit smoking the day I got
home and released from active duty, April 1, 1970. April Fools Day.