More info available? Was: Re: 1130 has been claimed

Another thing to look for when searching for IBM 1130 information is the Meta 4.  The Meta 4 (from Digital Scientific) was a clone of the IBM 1130, made in San Diego (ok, maybe Del Mar or Sorrento Valley area) around 1970. IIRC it was called an 1130 clone, but actually had the extra instruction(s) that would really make it an 1800 clone. There's an article on it at: http://www.cowo.de/archiv/1976/15/7615c064.html It was this machine, at UCSD, that I wrote SPACEWAR on in 1970, inspired by the article in Analog SF magazine. We had an Evans & Sutherland vector graphic display, and some kind of home brew sound (using Wavetek wave generators?). I still have a listing of the FORTRAN source for this SPACEWAR somewhere. I used the console switches as the controls, and had the usual gravity, hyperwarp (unreliable, of course...using it too often would get you killed). Someone added random twinkling stars at one point. We also had a computer-assisted targeting option for the second spaceship, which slowed things down but aided new players. I remember that the Meta 4 had firmware that was implemented on boards about 1 foot by 1 foot, with little copper squares of foil about the 1/4" by 1/4" ...indicating 1/0 by presence/absence. One problem was that the squares would sometimes lift up a bit, so we'd take out the boards and press them down again. I remember we also had APL, on a removable disk cartridge. Stan Sieler sieler(a)allegro.com