-1973. This was a port of Mayfield's version obtained from the HP
-Contributed Programs library.</para>
-
-<para>Our "Super Star Trek" came through a Taurus BASIC program by
-Grady Hicks dated 5 April 1973. This does not appear to have been
-derived from Ahl's SPACEWR, at least not directly. The header says
-"GENERAL IDEA STOLEN FROM PENN. U.", and the game has several features
-not present in SPACEWR: notably, the Death Ray, ramming, and the
-Klingon summons to surrender.</para>
-
-<para>Dave Matuszek, Paul Reynolds et. al. at UT Austin translated the
-Hicks port into FORTRAN and considerably enhanced it. The name "Super
-Star Trek" and many design features (including command abbreviations
-rather than command numbers) were probably picked up from a second
-BASIC version published by David Ahl in his 1978 sequel
+July 1973. This was a port of Mayfield's version obtained from the HP
+Contributed Programs library. </para>
+
+<para>Our SST2K is descended from a Taurus BASIC program by Grady
+Hicks dated 5 April 1973. This does not appear to have been derived
+from Ahl's SPACWR. The header says "GENERAL IDEA STOLEN FROM
+PENN. U.", and the game has several features not present in SPACEWR:
+notably, the Death Ray, ramming, and the Klingon summons to surrender.
+And, of course, it predates Ahl's book. The source is <ulink
+url="&sst-site;www/historic/UT-Trek.basic">available</ulink> on the
+SST2K website.</para>
+
+<para>Dave Matuszek, Paul Reynolds et. al. at UT Austin played the
+Hicks version on a CDC6600, but disliked the long load time and
+extreme slowness of the BASIC program. (David Matuszek notes that the
+Hicks version he played had a habit of throwing long
+quotes from Marcus Aurelius at the users, a feature he found
+intolerable on a TTY at 110 baud. It must, therefore, have been
+rather longer than the one we have.) The Austin crew proceeded to
+write their own Trek game, loosely based on the Hicks version, in
+CDC6600 FORTRAN. At that time, it was just called "Star Trek"; the
+"Super" was added by later developers.</para>
+
+<para>At the time the UT FORTRAN source was translated to C it emitted
+the message "Latest update-21 Sept 78". Thus, it actually predated
+(and may have influenced) the best-known BASIC version, the "Super
+Star Trek" published by David Ahl in his November 1978 sequel