Laser display (was Re: Orlando hamfest)

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "der" == der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> writes:

 der> [quoting order fixed manually -dM]
 >>> ISTR there was another game I wanted to play on one of my
 >>> machines - there was a star in the middle of the screen, and two
 >>> ships. The ships tended to move towards the star, and the
 >>> objective was for one player to destroy the other player's ship
 >>> by firing missiles.

 der> Spacewar, yes.  One could argue it was the very first video
 der> game.  Originally written for the..PDP-6, I think. 

Nope, the PDP-1.  It was mentioned just a few days ago in the context
of the PDP-1 restoration project.

   paul