... I was hoping, though, to find a much older text version of "Alice". Bowerbird stated his belief that Michael Hart keypunched Alice a lot earlier than 1990/91, but so far I have not found that version, assuming it was distributed and ended up in some BBS or online archive.
I got my first copy of Alice via email in about 1988, or possibly a little earlier (it was no later than June of 1988, because I got it while still at SUNY Albany). Unfortunately the file I got is lost, among some other old emails on 9-track tapes that didn't make one of my institutional transitions. It was the same (if earlier) Millenium Fulcrum edition that was in the PG collection, though at that time I had never heard of PG. (When I arrived at UIUC in 1991, I read a local newspaper article about Michael & PG and looked him up. The rest, as they say, is history!). -- Greg