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> Mom had been up all night hand-typing in a BASIC demo so it would be running in the morning. Many Wumpuses were hunted that day.

Hah, that’s a bit of special effort into making Christmas a little bit more magic. Was she a tech person of some kind?



She was a High School math teacher, but had an intensest in computing and programming from working on her Master's degree, where she learned state-of-the art COBOL programming. The first computer we had in the house at all was a few years previous, when her school district allowed her to take home a brand new Commodore PET over the summer break. On that machine, many stick-figure men were hung from the gallows. https://www.commodoregames.net/CommodorePET/Hangman-(2)-342....


Well she was smarter than those families who paid for the cartridge edition of "Hunt the Wumpus", like mine.




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