Fwd: Spacewar! on S/360

Thought I'd pass this on. I'm sure that most Hercules people will see this, but not sure about the cctalk folks. thanks Jim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Spacewar! on S/360 Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 22:51:12 -0600 From: Sean P. McBride <spmcbride at US.IBM.COM> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN at LISTSERV.UA.EDU> To: IBM-MAIN at LISTSERV.UA.EDU Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main All, I recently found out that Edson Hendricks (the creator of VNET) wrote a copy of Spacewar! for the IBM System 360 while he was an MIT student. It was based on the PDP-1 version, and it was used by MIT for their annual open house in either 1965 or 1966. My understanding is that this S/360 version ended up getting played by IBMers at the IBM Research Lab, which resulted in a corporate ban of running the software on IBM machines. Considering that the source should run on modern IBM mainframes with some code modification, I thought that this might be something worth resurrecting for the 50th anniversary of the System 360 announcement. Do any of you ever recall playing this game on an IBM mainframe or hearing about others that might have done this? Do any of you have suggests for finding the source code for this S/360 version? Edson does not have a copy, and I have not yet heard back the from Computer History Museum. Thanks for your help!!! Respectfully, Sean P. McBride Millennialmainframer.com