Gilfoyle will sort that

Working in Post Office Research in the 1990's I watched a couple of PDP-11's being hoicked into a skip near our labs. Sadly I lived in a shared house with no room for them....

At some point around '92 or '93 I was offered a Xerox lisp machine by the university I worked at - living in a small flat at the time I don't think I would have been popular if I had taken that home.

Out of Adastral Park?

After reading that article it is mandatory to play R-Type on the Spectrum and truly appreciate the challenges overcome by Bob Pape.

His book is well worth a read: https://bizzley.42web.io/?i=1

Isn't this just Mastermind?

Apologies for opening a tangeant on a tangeant, but am I the only one who thinks there are 2 levels of playing master mind (and therefore wordle)? Easy level, you let the player know exactly which spots are correctly placed and which ones are there but incorrectly placed. Hard level, you let the player know only that some are correctly placed and some are there but incorrectly placed without identifiying which ones. I personnaly don't enjoy the easy level when playing mastermind, but I do enjoy the hard version which is much more investigative and in my opinion triggers the same brain process as when I'm debugging code.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Wordle implemented in what you call “hard level”. But there’s no reason it couldn’t be.

No, this is much simpler.

More like Minionmind.

I developed so many similar services for the UK Royal Mail in the 1990's

We used Yellow Royal Mail branded envelopes to gain attention.

Would love to hear more about your experience! Any chance you'd be up for an interview on the Buttondown blog?

Happy to, find me on LinkedIN - Dave Barter CEO Nautoguide