I read this long ago, prompted when my dad landed a job lecturing on the later MV/4000 and MV/6000 models.
He'd sometimes work late and we'd go on a short family trip to pick him up. He'd set us up at a terminal to play games, my first journey into colossal caves. What really blew my mind, and I think cemented my love of computers and computing, was space invaders - an arcade game! OK text based sprites, but still the same gameplay as the real arcade machines, just less noisy.
I'm going to find a copy and re-read it as I remember it being compelling and a page-turner.
He'd sometimes work late and we'd go on a short family trip to pick him up. He'd set us up at a terminal to play games, my first journey into colossal caves. What really blew my mind, and I think cemented my love of computers and computing, was space invaders - an arcade game! OK text based sprites, but still the same gameplay as the real arcade machines, just less noisy.
I'm going to find a copy and re-read it as I remember it being compelling and a page-turner.