PDP-1 project milestone

Eric Smith eric at brouhaha.com
Thu Mar 3 19:00:51 CST 2005


Tore replied to my message about the PDP-1 finally running
Spacewar successfully:
> I'll come someday. Again, congratulations, and keep up the excellent
> work!! If I had half the skills you guys have, the PDP-7 would be
> calculating primes by now :)

Although I don't want to downplay the skills of any of the team
members, the main thing that was required was a lot of hours of
volunteer effort.  I'm not sure of the current total but I think it's
well over 1000 volunteer-hours.  If you had that much time available
you'd probably have the PDP-7 working.

Eric



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