Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From WE Computers Museum
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| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Type | Research university |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1861 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
| Key people | not disclosed |
| Industry | Scientific applications |
| Products | Zork |
| Number of people | not disclosed |
| Website | http://www.mit.edu/ |
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university.
Foundation
Massachusetts Institute of Technology is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It was founded on April 10, 1861.
Developments
Zork was developed on MIT's ITS operating system for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 mainframe computers, between 1977 and 1978 by MIT university students Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels, Marc Blank, and Tim Anderson.
Alumni
Three of the students formed Infocom in 1979 and they split Zork into three parts to release it commercially on home computers of the time.
Video games by the MIT owned by WEC Museum
| Title | System | Release | Added to museum | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zork | DOS, TADS, Glulx, Z-code | 1978 | September 7, 2019 | Pre-Infocom version. |
