For folks interested in the code see:
http://literateprogramming.com/adventure.pdf
(the source re-written as a Literate Program by Dr. Donald Knuth)
Wish I still had the teletype prints of when I played it on an HP 3000 minicomputer at a local college --- did finally finish the game using a port to Windows.
My wife quite enjoyed _Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet_ which is one of the references from Wikipedia and covers the backstory in great detail.