Chair:  Steve Barker
Email: sigunix@acm.uiuc.edu

Meeting Time: Monday 8:00 PM
Place: 1225 DCL

     Ok, I wanted to put together a SIG update for this month's banks, but I got distracted playing adventure in emacs. So in place of a real SIG update, I've attached part of my adventure session:

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Fork
You are at a fork of two passages, one to the northeast, and one to the
southeast.  The ground here seems very soft. You can also go back west.
>dig
I think you found something.
>look
Fork
You are at a fork of two passages, one to the northeast, and one to the
southeast.  The ground here seems very soft. You can also go back west.
There is a CPU card here.
>examine card
The CPU board has a VAX chip on it.  It seems to have
2 Megabytes of RAM onboard.
>get card
Taken. 
>se
SE/NW road
You are on a southeast/northwest road.
There is some food here.
>examine food
It looks like some kind of meat.  Smells pretty bad.
>get food
Taken. 
>se
Bear hangout
You are standing at the end of a road.  A passage leads back to the
northwest.
There is a ferocious bear here!

>drop food
Done.
The bear takes the food and runs away with it. He left something behind.
>look
Bear hangout
You are standing at the end of a road.  A passage leads back to the
northwest.
There is a shiny brass key here.
>get key
Taken.
>nw
SE/NW road
>nw
Fork
>ne
NE/SW road
You are on a northeast/southwest road.
>ne
Building front
You are at the end of the road.  There is a building in front of you
to the northeast, and the road leads back to the southwest.
>ne
Old Building hallway
You are in the hallway of an old building.  There are rooms to the east
and west, and doors leading out to the north and south.
>w
Computer room
You are in a computer room.  It seems like most of the equipment has
been removed.  There is a VAX 11/780 in front of you, however, with
one of the cabinets wide open.  A sign on the front of the machine
says: This VAX is named 'pokey'.  To type on the console, use the
'type' command.  The exit is to the east.
The panel lights are steady and motionless.

>type
You type on the keyboard, but your characters do not even echo.
>put card in computer
As you put the CPU board in the computer, it immediately springs to life.
The lights start flashing, and the fans seem to startup.
>look
Computer room
You are in a computer room.  It seems like most of the equipment has
been removed.  There is a VAX 11/780 in front of you, however, with
one of the cabinets wide open.  A sign on the front of the machine
says: This VAX is named 'pokey'.  To type on the console, use the
'type' command.  The exit is to the east.
The panel lights are flashing in a seemingly organized pattern.
>type


UNIX System V, Release 2.2 (pokey)

login: guest
password: fred
login incorrect
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[ damn ]

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