30 May
2008
30 May
'08
8:18 a.m.
Gene Buckle said:
The "original" WOPR used a Vic-20 as the
display. This one doesn't
appear to have that. :)
Actually, the display was a "flourescent matrix" driven by a custom
controller in an Apple ][. Some information about this is available on
Todd Fischer's IMSAI website:
http://www.imsai.net/movies/wargames.htm
Search for "flourescent" to find the relevant bits, though the whole page
has interesting history about the technology used in the movie from one of
the guys who worked it.
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