432K views · May 3, 2017 · 22:24 · 2 HN recommenders · 4 mentions · discussed 2018–2020
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.
Why Hacker News points people here: Linked in Spacewar and vintage computing threads as a charming demo on real hardware.
“it's quite an impressive machine.”HN comment, 2020
“His videos are surprisingly addictive;”
Demos running on original hardware from a restoration channel.
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.
“it's quite an impressive machine.”
Interview with a PDP-1 restorer and original Spacewar demo.
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
“See also this video shot at the CHM (by Marc Verdiell),”
Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 and plays original Spacewar.
See also this video shot at the CHM (by Marc Verdiell), "Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)": this video
“using a radar long-persistance CRT”
Spacewar demonstrated on PDP-1 with a long-persistence CRT.
Check out this demonstration of "Space War" on a PDP-1 using a radar long-persistance CRT: this video
