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@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ __ https://www.zap.org.au/
 Version 7.20 (not yet released)
 -------------------------------
 
+Updated the history of the game based on information kindly supplied by
+Patrick Dumais, who pointed out the source of Star Lanes in its original
+incarnation.  Reworked the manual page as part of the updated history.
+
 Updated the Swedish, Norwegian Bokmaal, French, German, Serbian and
 Esperanto translations (in that order), with thanks to Anders Jonsson,
 Johnny A. Solbu, Frédéric Marchal, Roland Illig, Мирослав Николић and
@@ -339,16 +343,32 @@ locales (such as US-ASCII, ISO8859-1, etc.) worked correctly.
 Early history
 -------------
 
-The original (and very primitive) Star Traders game was written by S. J.
-Singer in 1984 using Altair Basic.  This was modified for Microsoft Basic
-(MBASIC) running under the CP/M-80 operating system by John Zaitseff and
-released on 7th March, 1988.
+The original (and very primitive) game was written by Steven Faber and
+published as Star Lanes on pages `131–138`__ in :t:`Interface Age`,
+June 1977.  It was described by the magazine’s software editor as:
+
+    … a new imaginative Monopoly-type microcomputer game that everyone
+    can and will want to play if you have a microcomputer.  Like the
+    Monopoly game, STAR LANES combines financial and positional
+    strategies as players attempt to lay claim to valuable pieces of
+    space real estate between the stars in the Galaxy.
+
+    -- Robert A. Stevens, page 123__, :t:`Interface Age`, June 1977
+
+__ https://www.zap.org.au/projects/trader/historical/mbasic/src/star-lanes.pdf
+__ https://archive.org/details/197706InterfaceAge/page/n124/mode/1up
+
+S. J. Singer took Star Lanes and republished it in 1984 as Star Traders.
+His version was modified by John Zaitseff for Microsoft Basic (MBASIC)
+running under the CP/M-80 operating system; it was released on 7th
+March, 1988.
 
 Star Traders was then completely rewritten in 1990 for the
 Australian-designed 8-bit MicroBee computer running CP/M-80 on a Zilog
 Z80 processor, using Turbo Pascal 3.01a.  Essentially, only the name of
-the game and some of the ideas were retained in this version.  Version
-4.1 of Star Traders was released on 1st August, 1991.
+the game, the names of the first five companies and some of the key ideas
+were retained in this version.  Version 4.1 of Star Traders was released
+on 1st August, 1991.
 
 In 1992, it was recompiled for the NEC Advanced Personal Computer (with
 8-inch floppy drives!) running CP/M-86 on an 8086 processor, using Turbo
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 them.
 .\" *********************************************************************
 .SH HISTORY
-The original (and very primitive) Star Traders game was written by
-S.\~J\. Singer in 1984 using Altair Basic.  This was modified for
-Microsoft Basic (MBASIC) running under the CP/M-80 operating system by
-John Zaitseff and released on 7th March, 1988.
+The original (and very primitive) game was written by Steven Faber and
+published as Star Lanes on pages 131\(en138 in
+.IR "Interface Age" ,
+June 1977.  It was described by the magazine's software editor as:
+.PP
+.RS
+\[hellip] a new imaginative Monopoly-type microcomputer game that
+everyone can and will want to play if you have a microcomputer.  Like the
+Monopoly game, STAR LANES combines financial and positional strategies as
+players attempt to lay claim to valuable pieces of space real estate
+between the stars in the Galaxy.
+.sp 0.3v
+\(em Robert A\. Stevens, page 123,
+.IR "Interface Age" ,
+June 1977.
+.RE
+.PP
+S.\~J\. Singer took Star Lanes and republished it in 1984 as Star
+Traders.  His version was modified by John Zaitseff for Microsoft Basic
+(MBASIC) running under the CP/M-80 operating system; it was released on
+7th March, 1988.
 .PP
 Star Traders was then completely rewritten in 1990 for the
 Australian-designed 8-bit MicroBee computer running CP/M-80 on a Zilog
 Z80 processor, using Turbo Pascal 3.01a.  Essentially, only the name of
-the game and some of the ideas were retained in this version.  Version
-4.1 of Star Traders was released on 1st August, 1991.
+the game, the names of the first five companies and some of the key ideas
+were retained in this version.  Version 4.1 of Star Traders was released
+on 1st August, 1991.
 .PP
 In 1992, it was recompiled for the NEC Advanced Personal Computer (with
 8-inch floppy drives!) running CP/M-86 on an 8086 processor, using Turbo