Quote - My first computer didn't have a monitor, we hooked it up to a tv, an old console. (that children is one of those old tvs that stood on the floor and had a knob to turn channels)  Don't know that I played zork, but I do remember hearing about it. Played plenty of other text based games.

Our first PC didn't have a monitor except the green screen.  We hooked it up to a TV to play a silly game that I can't even remember the name of.  Little blob jumped from block to block...

When we got the color monitor, it took my parents days to figure out how to make it work on the PC.  They had to write a BasicA program to get it to work.

This was on an original IBM PC - no hard drive, just single sided floppy drives.