[ML-General] BBS The Documentary

[Erik Arendall]

I'd love to tinker with some of the SGI systems of the day. The thought of
high performance computing as well as parallel computing interests me.
On Mar 20, 2015 6:05 PM, "Kyle Owen" <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:40 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
>
>>  Spacewar was before text Startrek on the DEC PDP's?
>>
>
> Spacewar! dates to 1962 on the DEC PDP-1, which predates even Star Trek:
> TOS. It was later ported to a few other PDPs, including the PDP-8 (well,
> the LAB-8, which had a point-plot display, a basic requirement for the
> game), the PDP-7, PDP-10 and PDP-11, and other non-DEC systems as well.
>
> The version I'm assembling on a PDP-8/E was written sometime in the early
> 1970s, I believe. It will be connected to a large oscilloscope display, and
> I've already constructed period controllers for the game. The goal was to
> stay with period hardware, which I'm staying pretty true to. I just got
> through fixing the extended math boards (hardware multiply/divide) last
> night, as documented here: imgur.com/a/QVRLs
>
> That's a neat story with the Cray YMP. Too bad you don't still have it.
>
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