"The computer was a fairly new thing in 1971, and most people were not well acquainted with it. There was only one five-week course in programming at Carleton. I had taken the class when I was a junior, and the next trimester, I was recruited to be a lab assistant to help other students who were taking the course. I was fascinated by the power of the computer to not only calculate, but also to interact with written language. I had been thinking about writing a program to interact with a human through language, but the content of such a program remained a mystery to me."
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Bill Heineman as quoted by Kevin Wong, "The Forgotten History of 'The Oregon Trail,' As Told By Its Creators". Motherboard. Vice. (2017-02-15).
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