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It was during this period that a number of simple computer games were written in BASIC, most notably Mike Mayfield's Star Trek.

A number of these were collected by David H. Ahl while he worked at DEC and published in a newsletter he compiled.

He later collected a number of these into book form, " 101 BASIC Computer Games ", which was first published in 1973.

During the same period, Ahl was involved in the creation of a small computer for education use, an early personal computer.

When management refused to support the concept, Ahl left DEC in 1974 to found the seminal computer magazine, Creative Computing.

The book remained popular, and was re-published on several occasions.