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Here is an imaged, playable version of "The Breckenridge Caper of 1798". It's by Stephen Cabrinety of Superior Software. At the time this software comes out, it's sold for $28.95 ($74 in 2020 dollars). Stephen Cabrinety is 17 years old.
Here's the ad for this game and the other games being sold. (December 1983 issue of SOFTALK Magazine). For the record, the general consensus is none of these games are particularly great or classic works.
A fervent collector of software, Stephen Cabrinety collects many, many different titles and works of software. His goal is to open a museum of software. The name is of his non-profit is Computer History Institute for the Preservation of Software (C.H.I.P.S.), founded in 1989.
He has over 50,000 individual software pieces in his collection upon his death from Hodgkin’s disease in 1995. He was 29.
His family donates the entire collection to Stanford University, which he had dropped out of to found his software company, and that is the current holder of the Stephen M. Cabrinety Collection in the History of Microcomputing 1975-1995. searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4084859
Blog entry about him: web.stanford.edu/group/htgg/cgi…
These are not just floppies, people.
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