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From: "Dale R. Worley" <drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 94 21:55:26 EST To: apo-news@MIT.EDU I am working on setting up the computer system for a world-affairs simulation (Crisis 1994) for high-school students that will be held on Feb 12 and 13, 1994 in Cambridge (Boston), MA. This time around, I'm looking for a workstation for the Crisis program. What we need is a stand-alone BSD-ish Unix workstation that we can borrow for about two weeks, or at least, two weekends. We actually can rent one (unlike terminal servers), but they're expensive (nearly $1,000) and the budget really can't take it. If anybody has one that we could use, it would make Crisis enormously easier to produce. A detailed discription of the Crisis simulation and the equipment situation follows. Thanks, Dale - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dear Friends, For the last five years, the Educational Studies Program has sponsored CRISIS, a two-day political-military-economic simulation of world affairs, for high school students from eastern Massachusetts. CRISIS has been very popular, with participation doubling each year. It has grown so popular, that now we need your help. One of the recurring problems has been getting messages between participants, both between teams and between teams and Control. For CRISIS, 1993, we recruited about twenty people to sit in an Athena cluster madly typing whatever came in so that we could print a "newsletter" each game week (about every thirty minutes) to keep all participants informed of what was going on. The people who helped worked tirelessly, and feverishly, but we learned to our regret that the thirty minute delay caused by collecting material made the newsletter too slow to be of much use. We resolved to find a better way for 1994. The answer that comes easily to people from MIT is to set up a computer network. Dale Worley has taken charge of that, and worked out the basic requirements of the system. We will try to hook up about forty VT-100 terminals, one for each team, to a central server through four eight-port servers. Dale has also been pricing this out, and found that the minimum rentals for the the five key pieces is about five times what we can afford. And so we are turning to our contacts out in the real world. Might you have, or through your employer have access to, any of these pieces of hardware? CRISIS, 1994, is scheduled for the weekend of February 12-13 in building E51, but we would like to borrow these things starting in mid-January so we can assemble the network and be certain it works. Alternative ideas for system design would also be welcome. If you can help us in any way, please contact Dale Worley at drw@math.mit.edu. Thanks for whatever you can do. PS: Recipients of this message are welcome to attend CRISIS. Who knows, you may find yourself receiving an assignment and becoming part of the game!
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