PH work

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Now you've bought back memories! I was an avid ZX Spectrum user back in the
80s. I still have all the equipment too!

-----Original Message-----
From: Deskin, Bob [mailto:Bob.Deskin@Cognos.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:16 PM
To: powerh-l@cube.swau.edu
Subject: RE: PH work

A little PowerHouse trivia: 

An early demo application for QUICK was the game MasterMind, where you
figure out the sequence of a series of colored balls by making a guess and
then refining your guess based on the information returned (like how many
were in the correct spot and how many were the correct color). In fact, I
was told that the RANDOM function was added because it was needed for the
game.

Now I grant you, it's not a shoot-em-up, but then how many of those were
written in COBOL. In fact, I don't remember any games written in COBOL. I do
know that the original text adventure, Adventure (also know as Colossal Cave
Adventure) was written in Fortran.

Bob Deskin              
Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos Inc. 
bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 FAX: (613) 727-1178 
3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA 

-----Original Message----- 
From: Johnson, Tracy [ mailto:Tracy.Johnson@msiusa.com
<mailto:Tracy.Johnson@msiusa.com> ] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:36 AM 
To: powerh-l@cube.swau.edu 
Subject: RE: PH work 
Importance: Low 

I would have liked to have seen a PH based computer game. 
Seems that all the languages that 'made it' (except PH) 
had geeks that played with their language, but not PH, 
odd that.) 

BT 

Tracy Johnson 
MSI Schaevitz Sensors 

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Jon (Jarod) Hawks [ mailto:hawksj@yahoo.com
<mailto:hawksj@yahoo.com> ] 
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:58 PM 
> To: Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa); 'powerh-l@cube.swau.edu' 
> Subject: RE: PH work 
> 
> 
> I love your optimism. Over the years mine has been 
> tarnished by participation in large companies. It's 
> like the urchins who program in Java, cling to the 
> rocks at the bottom of a fast flowing river, and the 
> big-wigs are content to just be in power and control. 
> Productivity and the sense of pride in accomplishment, 
> seems to be a thing of the old school, of which, I am 
> part of and fading away. 
> 

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 [mailto:Bob.Deskin@Cognos.COM] Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:16 
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 A little PowerHouse trivia: 
 An early demo application for QUICK was the game MasterMind, 
 where you figure out the sequence of a series of colored balls by making a 
 guess and then refining your guess based on the information returned (like how 
 many were in the correct spot and how many were the correct color). In fact, I 
 was told that the RANDOM function was added because it was needed for the 
 game.
 Now I grant you, it's not a shoot-em-up, but then how many of 
 those were written in COBOL. In fact, I don't remember any games written in 
 COBOL. I do know that the original text adventure, Adventure (also know as 
 Colossal Cave Adventure) was written in Fortran.
 Bob 
 Deskin&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Product Manager, Application Development Tools, Cognos 
 Inc. bob.deskin@cognos.com (613) 738-1338 ext 7268 
 FAX: (613) 727-1178 3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 
 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA 
 -----Original Message----- From: 
 Johnson, Tracy [<A 
 href="mailto:Tracy.Johnson@msiusa.com">mailto:Tracy.Johnson@msiusa.com</A>] 
 Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:36 AM To: powerh-l@cube.swau.edu Subject: RE: PH 
 work Importance: Low 
 I would have liked to have seen a PH based computer 
 game. Seems that all the languages that 'made it' 
 (except PH) had geeks that played with their language, 
 but not PH, odd that.) 
 BT 
 Tracy Johnson MSI Schaevitz Sensors 
 
 &gt; -----Original Message----- &gt; 
 From: Jon (Jarod) Hawks [<A 
 href="mailto:hawksj@yahoo.com">mailto:hawksj@yahoo.com</A>] &gt; Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 10:58 PM &gt; 
 To: Olmos, Fernando (Sericon at Alcoa); 'powerh-l@cube.swau.edu' 
 &gt; Subject: RE: PH work &gt; 
 &gt; &gt; I love your 
 optimism. Over the years mine has been &gt; tarnished 
 by participation in large companies. It's &gt; like 
 the urchins who program in Java, cling to the &gt; 
 rocks at the bottom of a fast flowing river, and the &gt; big-wigs are content to just be in power and control. 
 &gt; Productivity and the sense of pride in 
 accomplishment, &gt; seems to be a thing of the old 
 school, of which, I am &gt; part of and fading 
 away. &gt; 
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