chaos_aDec 2020Recommends
Here's the same one on youtube with an interview with one of the people who restored it, it's quite an impressive machine. ▶ this video
in “The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1” · View on HN
Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)
Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!) on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2018–2020.
CuriousMarc
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Lyle Bickley of the PDP-1 restoration team tours the 1959 DEC machine at the Computer History Museum and plays the original Spacewar! He covers its graphics display and the MIT student programs written for it.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Linked in Spacewar and vintage computing threads as a charming demo on real hardware.
- people recommended it
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- discussed on HN
- 2018–2020
“it's quite an impressive machine.”
What HN commenters said
4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
BuildTheRobotsJan 2020Recommends
CuriousMark has a PDP11 video that has some of these demos running on the original hardware: ▶ this video His videos are surprisingly addictive; they've restored an Apollo guidance computer, Altos and tonnes of other ancient kit.
in “Snowflake: Graphical SFTP client and terminal emulator with helpful utilities” · View on HN
nezgarOct 2020Cites it
Check out this demonstration of "Space War" on a PDP-1 using a radar long-persistance CRT: ▶ this video
in “A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)” · View on HN
masswerkFeb 2018Cites it
See also this video shot at the CHM (by Marc Verdiell), "Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)": ▶ this video
in “Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums (1972)” · View on HN