On 10/18/19 12:06 PM, Dr Iain Maoileoin via cctalk wrote:
>
> Chuck, I am Scottish, I have never been to Berkeley!  I just cant remember 
> the history.  I remember playing the game with a bunch of post-graduates.
> I was either a post-grad or perhaps an early lecturer in the Uni.  That 
> places it square in the mid-80s.    I did spend most of my time researching.
> The games would have appeared on tapes from other places…..  I am hunting 
> around amongst the post-grads to see if any of them can tell me
> where it came from.
> 
> I knew the game as “search” in that that is what you typed in to start it.  
> To keep the undergrads out if it we had to put both passwords and time-locks 
> in
> the code….

Well, how about a phrase that you can recall?   I can see if it crops up
in my archives.

--Chuck

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