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 | | A creative writing prof in his 50s, he was also a computer type - a BASIC programmer who began the 80s using the large, heavy, monochrome Commodore PET machine, which lacked a period key. |
 | | At the college computer lab, when I was 8 or 9, he and I played a game called "Hunt the Wumpus," loaded from a datassette, trying to kill an invisible monster in a textual maze. |
 | | He'd also written a program to generate random words, to use in poems, and showed me the reams of dot-matrix output it had created, words in all caps. |
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