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To: John Pitera who wrote (32777)	7/22/1999 12:51:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Not exactly sure of the cost, his dad paid for it, I think about $50 for the software and books, and $10 a month for the on-line subscription. The programming must be unbelievable - and the computers. MUDs, they are called, Multi-User-Dungeons. The guys who develop these things are fanatics. A lot of computer power, like 3-D graphics acceleration, is really developed by these nuts for these nuts, and the rest of us benefit from it. You'd think that it went the other way, the fancy stuff was developed for say, Wall Street, and the game-players got the benefit, but no. Ben and I were just reminiscing last night, the first computer "game" Ben had was a Sesame Street game that involved a rubber duckie playing in a bathtub that got more elaborate step-by-step, you could put together a nice, long series of things like waterfalls, rapids, and chutes. DOS 4.0, on my first computer, a Packard-Bell 286 with 40 MB memory, brand new in 1990.