Twas the week before finals Stumbled on this oldie from the early 1970s. Written by Mike Carroll ("Hob"), Mike Folk ("Starry"), and Tom Stieglitz ("Condor"): Twas the week before finals, And on every term The gamers were playing, making everyone squirm The Cyber was clicking, the disks were a-spin And the people in moonwar were trying to win S-3's on remotes were blinking and flashing (Every 5 minutes the system was crashing) A new version here, and a new version there Was enough to make even John Eisenberg swear The Baron was BLEEPING at the raunched Comptech2 And Fuller was missing his space: fr2 Pad was in shambles, thanks to aero of glass And everyone's heading for talko, en masse. Poor John Daleske (as empire dies) Is tearing his hair: tears in his eyes. Meanwhile Pete Rowell and his friend Al McNeil Are busily trying to make Nova look real With cookies we authors, try Frankel to please And Rick Blomme's beard is down to his knees. He's being attacked, he's getting quite mad But he's still the best friend the games ever had. Then what to my wondering eyes should appear But a sorrowful Sweater and a can of ROOT BEER. "I'm hooked on my Fanta, I've given up hope... The withdrawal is bad, like being on dope." The author of pad, gandy, et al. Will hopefully be back on the system next fall (PLUG PLUG PLUG PLUG) For those that we've missed (we know quite a few) Check back in a month, when we write version 2. Hob, Condor, Starry: We all need a rest. We know this is poor, but we did do our best.