@danderson that's a lovely story, thanks for sharing. I backed the Elite Kickstarter, because 8bit computing as a child, but I never did own a PC that could play it. Alas, the console port got nuked. Perhaps I'll get to it one day, bit it's nice to know this sort of collective exists.
@tehstu @danderson There is a modern clone if the original elite called oolite, which I think has much of the original feel.
https://oolite.space