cool!

I remember in college reading about this “tetris for terminals” thing so I downloaded the source, brought it in to our glorious RS/6000 and found out XLC was too lame to compile it. So I did what any other sensible person would do, and I built a GCC cross compiler from Linux, and bootstrapped and built out a copy at home. I remember being all happy and dialing up to the RS/6000 to upload my binary, and taking the bus to school so I would get there and it should be uploaded (I took a copy on floppy too, I wasn’t that crazy!) And sure enough when I got there my upload had worked (2400 baud!) and I could finally sit in the back of the lab happily playing tetris…

I do remember using screen like a ‘boss key’ thing but eventually I got busted playing tetris… I don’t think they ever appreciated how much work it was to get it running …. But yeah productivity greatly suffered… Then this thing called doom arrived..

Soviet superscience was being funneled from advanced physics to computers: Halt all productivity in the western world through video games.

Anyway: I found myself unable to do anything else, not even sleep, so at one point I simply had to stop and I forced myself to delete the version on the harddisk, and every copy on every floppy. That was the only way. I knew that if I left behind any possibility of reinstalling it, I would. So I made sure that I couldn’t.

This being during the Cold War I figured the game was some kind of Russian trick weapon to tie up every computer user in the West.

-Tor

I knew someone would appreciate it.. lol 🙂