>With respect, I have studied the 1956 Royal McBee LGP-23 (and later -30) at >length and found one could easily use this computer as a "personal >computer".
I've not see one of these - that's a VERY early system! Sounds like it could have been used for "personal" computing - but was it common and inexpensive enough that "average people" could have one? I just went on Ed Roberts claim to be one who coined the term "Personal Computer" - I've not found any specific references to this term pre-dating 1975 ... but who knows! (I've not really looked that hard :-) >One might find it pretty easy to program "Hunt the Wumpus" ... Interesting reference.. My Altair eventually had a "North Star" MDC-A1 installed, this is a very early SSSD floppy disk system - a whopping 90k per diskette. When I created my Altair emulator (about 2003 IIRC), I made and included .NSI (NorthStarImage)s of all the non-junk floppy disks I had at that time. This included a couple "games" disks, and "Hunt The Wumpus" is there! Dave Dunfield - https://dunfield.themindfactory.com
