13 Aug
2010
13 Aug
'10
6:18 p.m.
My bad! The combination of poor quality text and my
71 year old eyes
did me in again. :-) My daughter says if you turn it "just so" the Ms.
Pac-Man copyright date does look like 1960, but it is actually 1980.
OK, that makes more sense.
Yep, that makes a lot more sense. In 1960 I suppose
about the only
thing to play a computer game on would have been either a mini or a
mainframe - actually I think it would have had to be a mainframe. Based
on a *very* quick web search, the first PDP-8 shipped in 1964, so if
that was the first mini... Some might say the IBM 1620, introduced in
1959, was a mini but I think that is a stretch.
THe PDP1 was around in the very early 1960s IIRC. And Spacewar, of
course, ran on it. I would class that machine as a mini, but others may not.
-tony