On Saturday, October 5, 2002, at 10:44 PM, C.E. Forman wrote:
> I remember this auction. Gave up around $300 myself. It's an Apple II
> version, right? Smaller manual than the TRS-80, which is about the
> size of
> an Infocom folio. This is the only boxed PS Zork I've ever seen,
> though I
> have a loose disk and manual. Wonder how the heck it ended up in the
> U.K.
Yes, this is the Apple II version. The disk is in working condition
(I've since backed it up).
This is what the seller told me: "I mentioned working in
Microdigital, Liverpool in a previous message... well, that was pretty
much the first retail microcomputer outlet in the UK - Apple IIs being
their main product - hence they used to sell the software too. It was
around summer 1981 that I joined them. Not only was Zork still a
Personal Software release back then, but Visicalc was one of theirs too
- before they went their own way, like Infocom, and became Visicorp.
These were the days when Microsoft's biggest product was probably the
Z-80 & CP/M card/software they made for the Apple II!"
He was a really nice guy and it tickled me to know that the price I
paid him funded his and his girlfriend's vacation to Spain. :) I was
recently reminded of all of this when I saw you comments on YOIS about
wished you had bid more for this Zork.
--
Edward Franks
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