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Subject: Re: A Curiosity: a book by Dan Spracklen.

Author: Keith Ian Price

Date: 20:59:45 05/05/02

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On May 05, 2002 at 19:09:27, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>I just saw in Amazom a book written by Dan S. in 1979. It treats about his
>sargon program and what is more, he presents the entire code, line by line. It
>is an used book.
>Fernando

I bought a copy of the source code for Sargon I from the Spracklens in 1978. It
came in a blue binder. I have often wondered where I put it. A lot of the
program was to interface to the S-100 system and to do graphics for the, IIRC,
Jupiter computer. So maybe this was why it was very weak. But it was a lot
stronger than a program called Checkmo which I obtained from DECUS which played
on a PDP-8 with legal moves but very little sense.

kp



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