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Pick a letter value from below.  Adding + or - is ok. Skip a line and describe.&#13;
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Right corner is chipped</text>
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            <text>Season 01/23/16&#13;
Judith 02/18/16 Notes updated</text>
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            <text>Multi-User Entertainment Limited is a company founded by Roy Trubshaw, Richad Bartle, and Simon Daily (incorporated February 1st, 1985 in London, UK) to market and license the early online Multi-User Dungeon (MUDs) as well as design and create additional games. Today Muse Ltd. functions as an online game consultancy company.</text>
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            <text>From donor Scott Hartsman:&#13;
"Richard Bartle (co-creator of the first MUD) is a friend.  He was about to throw away the original sign from his former office.  I asked him for it because I knew of a museum who might be interested in it.   So, he sent it to me.   And now you have it. "&#13;
&#13;
Of his connection with Bartle, Hartsman says:&#13;
"‘MUD1’ (root node of branch #1) was Richard Bartle’ss co-creation.  Scepter, the root node of the other core branch of MUDs, was the first game that I ever worked on."&#13;
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For more information about MUDs and MUSE, see http://mk.ucant.org/info/mudessay.pdf.  See pp 5-6 for this specific topic.  </text>
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