![I’m dating myself, but we eagerly awaited the dot matrix output to see the outcome and plan our next move. [689x583 - 68KB]](https://pic8.co/sh/6aSxGQ.jpg){kind=link}
Funny anecdote. I designed my wife’s wedding ring based on the Enterprise symbol here in this text based UNIX game <*>. My future MIL worked at a jeweler. She insisted I help design her daughters ring. I had no idea. But I saw garnets shaped like triangles and realized diamond = asterisk? Whoa, I placed the stones and my future MIL was thrilled. It was beautiful, a work of art! But I was thinking NCC-1701! Anywhoo, being married to her was awful, we divorced. She kept the ring, I never told her the story of the design because I never wanted to speak to her again. She should have returned the ring out of honor. She didn’t, not because she had no honor, ((she had none) but because it was and still is a great ring. I designed it, kind of, thanks UNIX Star Trek game. Like then, I still have no idea what I’m doing, but it’s going well.
The first Star Trek computer game I ever played was on our High School main frame computer. No video display, all output was on a huge noisy dot matrix printer. We created punch cards to input our next moves. Getting the punch cards right and feeding them in in the correct order was extremely important. It was usually a group of us, the teacher let us loose, we were obviously fully involved in using the computer. Good times!
The first Star Trek computer game I ever played was on our High School main frame computer. No video display, all output was on a huge noisy dot matrix printer. We created punch cards to input our next moves. Getting the punch cards right and feeding them in in the correct order was extremely important. It was usually a group of us, the teacher let us loose, we were obviously fully involved in using the computer. Good times!
Funny anecdote. I designed my wife’s wedding ring based on the Enterprise symbol here in this text based UNIX game <*>. My future MIL worked at a jeweler. She insisted I help design her daughters ring. I had no idea. But I saw garnets shaped like triangles and realized diamond = asterisk? Whoa, I placed the stones and my future MIL was thrilled. It was beautiful, a work of art! But I was thinking NCC-1701! Anywhoo, being married to her was awful, we divorced. She kept the ring, I never told her the story of the design because I never wanted to speak to her again. She should have returned the ring out of honor. She didn’t, not because she had no honor, ((she had none) but because it was and still is a great ring. I designed it, kind of, thanks UNIX Star Trek game. Like then, I still have no idea what I’m doing, but it’s going well.
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