Spacewar!

From: Mike Loewen <mloewen_at_cpumagic.scol.pa.us>
Date: Fri Feb 18 06:23:00 2005

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, William Donzelli wrote:

> SAGE was damn neat, I have to say. I know that getting an AN/FSQ-7 (or
> -8) is impossible, but getting some of the other chunks of the system are
> within the realm of possibility - things like the modems, GATORs, aircraft
> receivers, gap fillers, and so forth.
>
> What are the chances of ever seeing an /FSQ-7 emulator, running real SAGE
> code?

    I'm sure the Air Force still has source listings - whether they've been
declassified or not, who knows? It sure would be a major project, though.
How about a Java application for all the blinkenlights on the maintenance
consoles? :-)


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