Teaching thread management with puzzle games

Rocky’s Boots, 2021 edition.

Cory Doctorow

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The splash screen for the 1982 game ‘Rocky’s Boots,’ with the logo for the 2021 game Deadlock Empire superimposed on it (this is a lock and a Welsh dragon).

I fell in love with computers in the mid-1970s, starting when I was six and my dad brought home a teletype that could connect to his university’s mainframe with an acoustic coupler — a kind of proto-modem with a cradle that fit our kitchen’s rotary-dial phone handset.

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