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- OBJECT TYPE
- game/PC/5.25 in. floppy disk/double sided
- DATE
- 1984
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1995.0822.028
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- The Hitchhiker's Guide
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 28
- Total Parts
- 52
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- SYNTHETIC DISK WITH PAPER LABEL/ PAPER PROTECTOR
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 14.3 cm
- Width
- 13.4 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Computing Technology
- Category
- Digital peripheral devices
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- 1980'S
- Canada
-
SOFTWARE USED IN CANADIAN HOME ON APPLE IIC PERSONAL COMPUTER. ORIGINAL APPLE II, INTRODUCED IN 1977, WAS FIRST PC TO BE MASS MARKET SUCCESS IN CANADA AS ELSEWHERE - Function
-
COMPUTER PROGRAM DEVELOPED FOR RECREATIONAL PURPOSES IN WHICH GAME IS PLAYED USING COMPUTER SCREEN & INPUT DEVICE SUCH AS JOYSTICK OR MOUSE. MOST OF THESE GAMES INVOLVE ROLE-PLAYING IN SIMULATED ENVIRONMENT. This game is an almost perfect walkthrough of the Douglas Adams novel of the same name. It required the player to have an intimate understanding of the source material outside of the game. For that reason, it is considered one of the more difficult and complex of the 1980s text adventures. - Technical
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COMPUTER GAMES WERE ONE OF MOST POPULAR APPLICATIONS OF PERSONAL COMPUTER. Programmers were able to use more memory for the complex story of the game by creating a text adventure and not including game graphics, - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- TYPEWRITTEN TEXT ON LABEL READS '8/8 Format: Special/ A: The Hitchhiker's Guide/ B: Hitchhiker's Save Disk'
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- BLACK DISK/ WHITE LABEL
- Decoration
- N/A
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Unknown Manufacturer, Software, after 1984, Artifact no. 1995.0822, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1995.0822.028/
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