7 Jul
2001
7 Jul
'01
1:37 a.m.
--- Chuck McManis <cmcmanis(a)mcmanis.com> wrote:
As I understand it the Computer Museum History Center
brought up SpaceWar
on a PDP-1 to demonstrate it before some patent attorneys who used it as
'prior art' to invalidate some video game patents.
I'm not sure about that, but it sounds like a derivative story of when
Charlie Lasner did that on one of his old scope-equipped computers. He
had the listings entered as evidence of when the program was written, then
the court adjourned to his place in Queens to show that it was a real
program and not just theoretical.
The patents were overturned.
-ethan
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