2 HN users recommended this demo2 months2018–2020score 2
Years with an HN recommendation, 2007–2026
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.
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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