Date : Wed, 31 May 2006 22:01:46 +0100
From : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: Yet Another Where Is This Game From?
Samwise wrote:
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> http://www.bagshot-row.org/images/artilleryduel.jpg
Sorry, absoultely no help at all, and completely off-topic, but this
looks suspiciously like a game my brother used to spend many happy
hours playing on the Tektronix 4051, when I was about 3 or 4 years
old. You entered an angle and speed for your shell, in an attempt to
hit your opponent's gun on the other side of the mountain.
I used to lay down on the top of the Tektronix and lean over the front
to look at the screen. I know I was small, because in this position, I
could use the protruding interface cartridges at the back of the unit
to stop myself sliding off!
Doesn't seem to be much on the Web about these machines, but I did
turn up a picture of one:
http://www.piercefuller.com/library/img10059.jpg?kind=web