24 Dec
2012
24 Dec
'12
6:02 a.m.
Are you sure? My understanding (from all the documentation I've seen) is
that the PDS-1 was released in 1970?
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Tom Uban <uban at ubanproductions.com> wrote:
Actually, the print set for the PDS-1 is dated from
the late 60s and the
first model of the machine which I did own and later traded to another
collector was a late 60s vintage. Mine, the PDS-1D, is from the early 70s.
--tom
On 12/23/12 2:18 AM, Martin Goldberg wrote:
--
Marty
Thanks Tom, appreciate the repsonse but the PDS-1
wasn't out in the
1960s.
As mentioned, I'm trying to compile a listing
of ports of Spacewar on
various hardware during the 1960s. :)
So far during that time period (mid through late 60s), I haven't seen any
direct ports outside of DEC equipment.
On a related note, is anyone here a grad from U of Utah during that
period
or in contact with someone who was? I'm also
trying to track down what
mainframes/minis they had and what if any of them had xy displays.
Someone
claims to have played Spacewar there in '65,
but so far it's panned out
as
being highly unlikely, since up to that time it
only existed on the
PDP-1,
which Utah didn't have. The PDP-6 version
wasn't created by Russel until
'66 at SAIL (their PDP-6 was installed in June '66). Likewise, Evans was
first recruited in '65 to start their CS program.
The earliest documentation I've been able to find is that Utah purchased
a
Univac 1108 in 1967
(http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/694650.pdf)
And they were just starting to plan building a 1108/PDP-8 graphics system
in '67:
http://content.lib.utah.edu/utils/getfile/collection/uspace/id/2332/filenam…
Likewise they had a PDP-10 in the very late 60s (used as one of the first
Arpanet nodes).
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Tom Uban <uban at ubanproductions.com>
wrote:
> I do not know that it was technically a "port", but a version of
spacewar
> runs on the Imlac PDS-1 vector graphics
computer. I know of two which
are
> still in running condition. Mine is a PDS-1D
as seen here:
> http://members.iglou.com/thunderbird/vcf/vcf-Pages/Image10.html
>
> On 12/22/12 3:07 AM, Martin Goldberg wrote:
>> Hoping some of the people here can help, I'm trying to compile a
listing
> of
>> hardware that versions of the Spacewar code were ported to after the
> PDP-1
>> during the 1960s. There was the PDP-6 version which was done at
Stanford
>> SAIL, and there were the PDP-7 and 8
versions which appeared in the
DECUS
catalog in the early 70s (which means they could have
technically been
done in the very late 60s), and the early 70s PDP-10 version (which was
just a port of the PDP-6 version).
Is anyone aware of any non DEC hardware it was ported to in the 60s? I
haven't been able to find any concrete evidence that it was on anything
other than DEC hardware in the 60s.
Thanks!
--
Marty