Space War?

From: Vance Dereksen <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Jul 5 19:51:43 2001

I thought the first game was AD on early CDCs and later on IBM S/36s?

Peace... Sridhar

On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Bob Shannon wrote:

> As I understand it, the first video game ever was space war, written at MIT.
>
> Does anyone here know anything about a port of space war for the HP2115?
>
> Many years ago I purchased a 2115 from the MIT equipment exchange. Paper
> lables on the front panel suggest that the machine at one time played space
> war.
>
> I've kept the core unlatered, but the idea of reverse engineering whatever
> code
> may (or may not) be stored in core seems impractical. The machine had all its
>
> I/O boards removed before I got to it.
>
> I'm tempted to simply ignore the original contents of the core at this point,
> and
> load something interesting for VCF East, but before I alter it, I'd like to
> ask if
> anyone has heard of space war running on old HP mini's?
>
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