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Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)
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Lyle Bickley of the PDP-1 restoration team tours the 1959 DEC machine at the Computer History Museum and plays the original Spacewar! He covers its graphics display and the MIT student programs written for it.
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Linked in Spacewar and vintage computing threads as a charming demo on real hardware.
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From the Hacker News discussion
CuriousMark has a PDP11 video that has some of these demos running on the original hardware: [VIDEO] His videos are surprisingly addictive; they've restored an Apollo guidance computer, Altos and tonnes of other ancient kit.
Read original comment ↗Here's the same one on youtube with an interview with one of the people who restored it, it's quite an impressive machine. [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗See also this video shot at the CHM (by Marc Verdiell), "Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)": [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗Check out this demonstration of "Space War" on a PDP-1 using a radar long-persistance CRT: [VIDEO]
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