23 Dec
2012
23 Dec
'12
9:25 p.m.
Data General Nova computer, 1968, Spacewar demonstration program at the
FJCC (Fall Joint Computer Conference).
(I am still scrounging for a copy of the original version...)
Bruce Ray
Wild Hare Computer Systems, Inc.
On 12/23/2012 1:18 AM, Martin Goldberg wrote:
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