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Title: Revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40
Post by: Freddy on September 22, 2022, 19:40:12 PM

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QuoteAs a teenager, Veronika Megler was intent on becoming a statistician. She signed up for a computer science course at Melbourne University, reasoning it would assist her chosen career. "I think there were four women in a class of about 220 people, and it was pretty misogynistic," she recalls. Megler had already built her own PC, buying the motherboard, chips, capacitors and diodes from an electronics shop in Melbourne. "In the store they'd say 'tell your boyfriend we don't have these'," she recalls.

Full story: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/sep/22/i-saw-the-possibility-of-what-could-be-done-so-i-did-it-revolutionary-video-game-the-hobbit-turns-40

I was there Gandalf, 40 years ago. I had this for my ZX Spectrum :)

Title: Re: Revolutionary video game The Hobbit turns 40
Post by: Data on September 22, 2022, 20:45:32 PM

I was there 40 years ago too.

Happy Birthday The Hobbit

:party-time:

Datahopa

Computer Related => Video Games => Topic started by: Freddy on September 22, 2022, 19:40:12 PM