From Ed at alderaan.scrc.symbolics.com  Thu Nov  9 16:03:00 1989
From: Ed at alderaan.scrc.symbolics.com (Ed Schwalenberg)
Date: Nov 9 89 10:03 EST
Subject: looking for old weirdness
In-Reply-To: <666900.891109.CENT@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>
Message-ID: <19891109150307.9.ED@PEREGRINE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

    Date: Thu,  9 Nov 89 04:19:39 EST
    From: "Pandora B. Berman" <CENT%AI.AI.MIT.EDU at mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>

	Date: Fri, 3 Nov 89 13:32:49+060
	From: "Ronald D. Mabbitt" <rdm at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
	To: cent at ai.ai.mit.edu
	Subject: Zork, mdl, etc!
	Hi, I'm trying to find the original MDL Zork and MDL compiler and
	MDL manuals, etc, for possible academic anduse research use.  Is
	it findable?  It should be all old DARPA stuff, so there shouldn't
	be any licencing problems...

    anyone know where this stuff might be hiding?

Presumably the MDL manuals can be found in the LCS Reading Room.
The compiler sources are probably on DM backup tapes, wherever
they've gone.  Perhaps sources to the manuals are also on backup
tape.

The sources to Zork itself were not kept online, or if they were, they
were kept encrypted.  I doubt you could resurrect it without help from
one of the original Zork wizards.

You might ask TAA (Tim Anderson), who's now at Interleaf, 577-9800.
My recollection is that he was only peripherally involved with Zork,
but he might know how to get in touch with the others.

From CENT%AI.AI.MIT.EDU at MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU  Thu Nov  9 10:19:39 1989
From: CENT%AI.AI.MIT.EDU at MINTAKA.LCS.MIT.EDU (Pandora B. Berman)
Date: Thu,  9 Nov 89 04:19:39 EST
Subject: looking for old weirdness
Message-ID: <666900.891109.CENT@AI.AI.MIT.EDU>

    Date: Fri, 3 Nov 89 13:32:49+060
    From: "Ronald D. Mabbitt" <rdm at ncsa.uiuc.edu>
    To: cent at ai.ai.mit.edu
    Subject: Zork, mdl, etc!
    Hi, I'm trying to find the original MDL Zork and MDL compiler and
    MDL manuals, etc, for possible academic anduse research use.  Is
    it findable?  It should be all old DARPA stuff, so there shouldn't
    be any licencing problems...

anyone know where this stuff might be hiding?