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

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

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.

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

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