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#1: marjorie rex (Mamo) on Feb 11, 2021

good for you!

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Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by valerie.

Cool! Go Don!

If I remember right, the only lookahead was some edge logic on the top row.

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Yes! The top seven needed edge logic! Nice job Don.

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This is a very good first puzzle. I can tell you already know what makes a good one because you have solved so many. That is, you already know what YOU like in one. It helps a lot. I'm glad you accepted the challenge.

Valerie - agreed, only the top row edge logic was necessary. Nice puzzle!

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Donald, nice to meet someone who knows his way around computer cards. Not too many of us carried our lives around in shoeboxes. Lol I always feel like such a dinosaur. I actually used computer tape for a year before they went to cards, but I began back in 1967. In what language(s) did you program?

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Hi JoDeen, I started at U. of Waterloo in 1968, where they used Watfor, their load&go version of Fortran, and then it became Watfiv. Then Algol, but work afterwards was in proprietary telephone switch languages, where it was usually tape.
You may appreciate that in high school, the young head of math cautioned me against going into computers, because he had read a study that Canada could only afford five computers, and by the time I graduated, they might all be programmed and there would be no jobs in computers.

Hi Kristen - thanks for your comments as well. I was just trying to be clear, since Chai generally implies spicy tea, but not always.

Really good puzzle! Thanks I really enjoyed the solve!!

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Paper tape was before my time, but I started programming on punch cards in an ancient dialect of Fortran. The admins were always shooing us away from the computer, because all of us were curious about it and wanted to learn more about it, but if too many of us stood around it then our body heat would make it overheat and crash.

Donald, I love the story about how all five computers in Canada would already be programmed by the time you graduated!

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Hi Donald, about #15 I am a little younger than you but made that mistake in 1976 - this is Argentina and as far as I know there were very few computers. I studied Civil Engeneering instead. Never worked as such. Soon after graduating I turned to my original love -computers- but had to learn everything I know by myself. Because I don't have a degree I can only have low-level jobs, even though I often know more than my bosses.

Nice job for a first puzzle. I must have gotten started wrong because I did have to guess once. To be this looks like a glass of beer so maybe I am not hanging around with the right people. Please continue to design puzzles.

Oh no.

I wondered if Don *did* create any more puzzles, so I clicked on Users and looked him up. The site says he was last logged in on August 7, 2021. Then I did a web search for his name -- and found an obituary for a Donald Clysdale who died on August 7, 2021. No idea if it was the same person, but it seems possible.

https://martynfh.com/tribute/details/12584/Donald-Clysdale/obituary.html

Rest in peace, Don. If that was you.

Seems more than coincidental. Rest in peace indeed.

Rest in Peace!

It's very moving for me to think that Don logged onto our site the day he died.

JoDeen: Adam (monkeyboy) too seems to have logged in here on the day before he died. Though, like Don, there's the question of whether the person in the obituary is the same person or if it's just a coincidence. I looked up the discussion about that. It's puzzle 4707:
https://webpbn.com/read.cgi?type=P&id=4707&what=all&start=1

Rest in peace, both of them.

Valerie, I never knew, thanks for sharing the post.

Thank you for sharing this information, Valerie. I think I remember someone speculating about whether or not Adam was "our Adam," but since he hasn't returned it seems probable. Much love to you, Valerie...you are such a good person.

Thanks -- I just did a web search and reported back what I found. There are lots of nice people here, especially you!

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