Word: comped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ding!" The sound of a fire bell, imitated flawlessly and gleefully by a high-pitched human voice, informs the neighborhood that Moppet has conquered Machine. They are well matched: Lizie is small, going on eleven, with brightly lit hazel eyes. The vanquished mechanism is a small desktop computer called Comp IV, new this year at under $40, with flashing red lights...
...Comp IV starts things off by thinking of- but not revealing - a number, and its human opponent tries to work out the secret by punching pushbuttons. Milton Bradley Co., which makes the gadget, supplies scratch pads for adults and slow-witted children, but self-respecting eleven-year-olds disdain these. The girl also does not bother with the relatively easy three-and four-digit problems. She plays at the rarefied five-digit level, which means she must hit on one out of a possible 30,240 combinations, and she keeps her notes in her head, the way the computer does...
...Code Name: Sector, the submarine chase, has a dandy digital readout, for instance, but the courses of the sub and the pursuing warships must be drawn on a chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic Battleship, while physically impressive and wonderfully noisy, lacks an AC adapter...
...INDIVIDUAL PASSING Player Comp./Att. Yds Larry Brown 41-74 522 Brian Buckley...
...writing in response to your article, "Pudding Script Comp Under Fire," as I was quoted unfairly and out of context. My comment that the Pudding "will encourage practically anyone to write a script" was in response to a question whether the Theatricals "invites" select people to compete. The Pudding script competition is open to all comers, and the officers attempt to draw from as many sources--both inside and outside the dramatic community--as possible. The comment was not, as the article seemed to imply, in agreement with Paris Barclay's statement that the Pudding Theatricals (not the club...