Henry,<div><br></div><div>I don't mind contacting them over telephone or e-mail. Do you think any of them might be interested in talking to a game history researcher about this? I'm trying to understand why there were so few games aside from Spacewar mods documented from that time period.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Devin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Henry Lowood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lowood@stanford.edu">lowood@stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<font face="Georgia">Devin,<br>
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All the MIT people I know from that era probably live within ten miles
of Stanford these days. Another confirmation of how smart they are!<br>
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Henry<br>
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Devin Monnens wrote:
<blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">I am interested in doing research on mainframe computer
games produced before 1975. I will be in Boston from November 6-9 on an
unrelated trip, but will be visiting MIT for their open house. I was
curious if anyone here knew someone at MIT who would have knowledge
about this period who I could meet with while there. Any other
resources would also be greatly appreciated!
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