Re: Diplomacy generation gap

It actually made it slower, you would type your press into the computer, and
it would not arrive until the next day for some reason.
"David E. Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hmm.  That is a *very* early incidence of "computer aided" (not quite
> pbem, if I am guessing correctly about the way the computer system was
> used).  Has anyone ever heard of an earlier instance?
>
> P.S.  Welcome back.
>
> al evans wrote:
> > In the late sixties, when I was in school, we played an extended game of
> > Diplomacy over a computer system which was connected to the defense
> > department. It was part of an honors history class whith emphasis on
world
> > politics. Ah those sixties...
> > Anyway, now at 50, I am out of work for a year for a series of
surgeries,
> > and am finally getting back into the game, another thirty five year
> > interegnum.
> > "David E. Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >
> >>I'm sure that FTF-PBEM gap is fairly common, but yours may well be
> >>longer than most.  Before I discovered PBEM, I hadn't played for more
> >>than 15 years.
> >>
> >>"Andy Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
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> >
> > news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >
> >>>"Chris Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >>>
> >>>>Jim-Bob wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>But I always thought that the Judges were full of much
> >>>>
> >>>>younger people, perhaps I was wrong,
> >>>>
> >>>>That's my impression as well... when reviewing the player
> >>>>information in my games, it seems that I, at 47, am nearly
> >>>>always the oldest fogie in the bunch.
> >>>
> >>>I didn't even discover PBEM until I was 47. (Before that, I'd played a
> >
> > few
> >
> >>>FTF games at the age of 17-18, then none at all for very nearly 30
> >
> > years!)
> >
> >>>Andy
> >
> >
> >
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