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tfm
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:45 pm

Check this out:

Believe it or not, this is from 1957, predating my earliest piece by five years. An incredible find! For those of you interested in wargaming history, here's something cool:

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beattie/timeline2.html

Gygax, Perren, Chainmail and D&D are mentioned in the time line.

"I can shew you houses that have stood two centuries and a half and more; houses that have witnessed what would make a modern house crumble into powder. What do moderns know of life and the forces behind it?" --Richard Upton Pickman

Blackmoor
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:53 pm

The link is dead!

Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

mbassoc2003
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:57 pm

Blackmoor wrote:The link is dead!

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~beattie/timeline2.html

This week I've been mostly eating . . . radishes.

tfm
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:57 pm

Try it now.

Blackmoor
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:08 pm

tfm wrote:Try it now.

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Games can get you through times of no money but money can not get you through times of no games!!

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