Spacewar! (was Re: Laser display...)

John Lawson jpl15 at panix.com
Thu Feb 17 12:50:50 CST 2005



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




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