Re: unit axis intercepts

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ChrisB said...

It also didn't want to play global thermonuclear with me, which was a bit disappointing.

Wrong hardware. GTW was played on a massively configurable parallel Thinking Machine CM-5 (named WOPR in the movie, and was a prop, not an actual computer), of the sort NASA once used to descramble satellite images. The confusion may be because the company that made the Connection Machine was Thinking Machine Corporation. I don't know what they were thinking. The movie's game was ported to 8-bit computers of the early 1980's, and just this year Russia threatened to use nukes again so , still playable, i guess.

Kat

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