Space War?

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Sat Jul 7 10:45:43 2001

Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com> wrote:
> As I understand it the Computer Museum History Center brought up SpaceWar
> on a PDP-1 to demonstrate it before some patent attorneys who used it as
> 'prior art' to invalidate some video game patents.

IIRC, TCM's PDP-1 failed to power up at some time while still at TCM
in Boston. (Early-mid 1990s?) It is now at Moffett Field, and there
is (or was recently) interest in restoring it to functionality.

-Frank McConnell
Received on Sat Jul 07 2001 - 10:45:43 BST

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