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"Maze" game Documentation

With special thanks to Greg Thompson

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Friends of Maze, left to right: Howard Palmer who along with Steve Colley had the original idea for Maze and wrote the first Imlac version. In the middle is Don O'Brien who also worked at NASA/Ames at the time. Greg Thompson is on the right holding the hardware Maze report
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A report for a MIT digital design class where Mark Horowitz, George Woltman, and Greg Thompson designed and implemented a 3D hardware version of Maze using early 7400 series logic chips with 256 16-bit words of memory. It was separate from the Imlac software version but implemented shortly after in the Fall of 1976. for Imlacs
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Imlacs
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Maze Wars for AppleTalk
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Programming instruction set card for Imlacs
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Imlacs PDS-1 system
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Card from the InterOp implementation of Maze for Oracle
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Maze on the Mac
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Oracle Maze
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Description of how Maze was measured as generating up to half of the packets on the Arpanet in the mid 1970s and its use was therefore limited to "off-hours". The book on J.C.R. Licklider points out, soem of the heads of Project MAC (later to be the MIT Computer Science Laboratory) were players as well.
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Maze for Mac
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The custom hardward at MIT designed to run Maze
as described in Scientific American


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