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[david]

I still have 3 or 4 of them.  Gave one 4D system to the shop several 
years ago.



On 03/20/2015 06:11 PM, Erik Arendall wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto:kylevowen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:40 PM, david <ainut at knology.net
>     <mailto: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
>     <http://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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