7 Jul
2001
7 Jul
'01
3:45 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.
IIRC, TCM's PDP-1 failed to power up at some time while still at TCM
in Boston. (Early-mid 1990s?) It is now at Moffett Field, and there
is (or was recently) interest in restoring it to functionality.
-Frank McConnell