On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>
> Pong Story has a new bit of information I've never seen before.
> Apparently, in 1952 a PhD candidate wrote his thesis on human-computer
> interaction and used the EDSAC's memory tubes to display a tic-tac-toe
> game:
>
> http://www.pong-story.com/intro.htm
>
> Wow!
Here is it's Simulator:
http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~edsac/
I've run this on a couple of different computers (Wintel boxen) and it's
a hoot. Tic-Tac-Toe and all...
Cheers
John
Received on Thu Feb 17 2005 - 12:50:50 GMT