Thanks Will. Did some research and it's not a port, but a copy coded from
scratch (i.e. played the game and tried to produce a similar version from
that) on an IBM 360/65 with 2250 Model I video display. I'll have to put it
as a distantly related branch vs. a direct port, similar to Computer Space.
From
http://whoinventedinternet.com/2011/blog/computer-networking-history-contac…
"Also, I think my friend George McQuilken mentioned to me that the Computer
History Museum was aware of an early version of the Spacewar computer video
game that ran on the IBM System/360 Model 65 at the MIT Computation Center
that appeared some time in the late 1960s, after the original Spacewar on
the DEC PDP-1, but they (you) didn?t know where it came from. Well, in fact
I also wrote that one while I was employed as a system programmer at the
MIT Computation Center, deliberately copying the Spacewar game I had seen
and played on the PDP-1 there, and this story also is told in Leanne
Jones?s new (children?s) book, ?It?s Cool to be Clever.? FYI."
In the book "It's Cool to Be Clever: The Story of Edson C. Hendricks," he
states "In my spare time I created a little game project with the new video
display just to learn how to work it... Both his game and mine were called
Spacewar."
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 2:18 PM, William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com>wrote:
According to wiki entry for Edson Hendricks, it was ported to the IBM 2250.
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Marty