The Oregon Trail debuted to Rawitsch's classes on December 3, 1971.[9] He was unsure how interested the students would be in the game, as they had had limited exposure to computers and several seemed uninterested in history altogether, but after he showed them the game students would line up outside the door for their turn and stay after school for another chance.[5] Rawitsch has recounted that, as only one student could use the teleprinter at one time, the students organized themselves into voting for responses and delegating students to handle hunting, following the map, and keeping track of supplies.[6] Other teachers at the school came up with "flimsy excuses" for their students to try the game as well.[10] The trio adjusted the game's code as the students played in response to bugs found, such as purchasing clothes for negative money.[3] As the school district shared a single central minicomputer, schools across the city began to play the game as well.[7] When the semester and their student teaching term ended, the team printed out copies of the source code—about 800 lines of code—and deleted the program from the computer.[9][11]