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Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)

Name: Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)
Description: Lyle Bickley of the PDP-1 restoration team tours the 1959 DEC machine at the Computer History Museum and plays the original Spacewar! He covers its graphics display and the MIT student programs written for it.

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Linked in Spacewar and vintage computing threads as a charming demo on real hardware.

Lyle Bickley of the PDP-1 restoration team tours the 1959 DEC machine at the Computer History Museum and plays the original Spacewar! He covers its graphics display and the MIT student programs written for it.

“it's quite an impressive machine.” (HN, 2020)

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CuriousMark has a PDP11 video that has some of these demos running on the original hardware: [this video] His videos are surprisingly addictive; they've restored an Apollo guidance computer, Altos and tonnes of other ancient kit.

Demos running on original hardware from a restoration channel.

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Here's the same one on youtube with an interview with one of the people who restored it, it's quite an impressive machine. [this video]

Interview with a PDP-1 restorer and original Spacewar demo.

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