Comments on: A New Dave Lebling Interview https://nickm.com/post/2014/08/a-new-dave-lebling-interview/ Nick Montfort Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Nick Montfort https://nickm.com/post/2014/08/a-new-dave-lebling-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-188951 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 23:43:04 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3902#comment-188951 Dave, thanks for this and for the specifics of (very low) baud rates!

I found out that Dave Lebling gave an hour-long talk at GDC which is online – providing a post-mortem for the original Zork! Post-mortem indeed … I think of it as more of an exhumation. I think a bell, a book, and a candle were involved. In any case, here’s the link:

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/217428/Video_Zork_Classic_Game_Postmortem_from_GDC_2014.php

]]> By: David Cornelson https://nickm.com/post/2014/08/a-new-dave-lebling-interview/comment-page-1/#comment-188549 Fri, 22 Aug 2014 17:14:07 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=3902#comment-188549 I can confirm this. I discovered ADVENT and DUNGEO in high school in 1979 and we played both on one of two green bar paper terminals (dialed into Milwaukee Public Schools PDP 11/70). One was a DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) LA/34 and the other was an LA/32. The 34 was a 110 baud machine. The 32 was a 300 baud machine (much sought after because of its blindingly fast speed). We also had access to thermal paper terminals which we were allowed to sign out and take home over night.

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