Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Type Research university
Founded 1861
Headquarters Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Key people not disclosed
Industry Scientific applications
Products Zork
Number of people not disclosed
Website http://www.mit.edu/

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university.

Foundation

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

It was founded on April 10, 1861.

Developments

Zork was developed on MIT's ITS operating system for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 mainframe computers, between 1977 and 1978 by MIT university students Dave Lebling, Bruce Daniels, Marc Blank, and Tim Anderson.

Alumni

Three of the students formed Infocom in 1979 and they split Zork into three parts to release it commercially on home computers of the time.

Video games by the MIT owned by WEC Museum

Title System Release Added to museum Notes
Zork DOS, TADS, Glulx, Z-code 1978 September 7, 2019 Pre-Infocom version.