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The Troll Hole Adventure
When Kenneth Lochner was hired by Dartmouth away from Montana State College as a programmer in 1964, he had been working in computers for four years. Lochner in particular had been teaching FORTRAN…
Lochner was integral to helping develop Dartmouth’s legendary time-sharing system, where a large computer could have its time divided into slices, and multiple users could then access the same machine simultaneously using terminals (as opposed to slow batch punch cards and their resulting infinite loops). They were successful enough to be bought by Automatic Data Processing in 1975, and two years later Lochner left to found Interact Electronics to work on an entirely new project: the design of a personal computer. I’m tempted to try the French version (La caverne des lutins, released 1982) to see if the changed text gives any different textual hints that might help me out.
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