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From: richard.merryman@medtronic.com (Richard Merryman)
Subject: Re: Original Infocom Packages
Date: 26 Feb 1996 18:26:52 +0000
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ceforma@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Christopher E. Forman) wrote:
>I just received a set of original Infocom packages today.  Not the mid-80's
>style packages with the box containing a depression in which disks and props
>were sealed over with a removable plastic cover, but earlier packages than
>that even.  These packages were flat, folder-style packages of Deadline,
>Planetfall, and Enchanter, _not_ the Solid Gold versions, but, apparently,
>among the very first releases of these games.  Each comes with a sticker
>bearing the "Interlogic" label.
>
>I'd never even known this type of package existed before.  Anyone else have
>these?
>

I have the folder version of PlanetFall.  I bought in about 1983 or 1984 
for my TRS-80 Model I.  It was a two sided single density disk.  I was 
amazed to find that it still worked in 1994.

L8r...Richard

