One of my favorite

books to read is Hackers, by Steven Levy. It gives a great insight into the minds of those brave intrepid early adventures of computer design, mainly Those Guys from MIT (and what a great history of the Model Railroad club was provided as well!).

Anywhos, even though I read that book more than a decade ago, I still remember how indelibly etched into my mind many of the chapters became. For example, there’s the gripping narrative of how the school’s first computer, the PDP-1, was used to create the absolute Forerunner of modern gaming today:

(looks a lot like Asteroids in Preschool, doesn’t it?). And how another description of a coder was

….the demeanor of a backwoodsman, quietly sitting around whittling his wood…47 instructions.

Nice stuff!

You can learn more about Spacewar at:

• Spacewar! : The first computer game invented by Steve Russell
• Spacewar Legacy
• PDP 1 Restoration Project

Ah, memories….

ThankYouVeryMuch!

Owlbert

ps - did you know you can get some great PDP stuff like so:

DEC PDP-8 Handbooks Introduction to Programming 5 books

DEC |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| RL01K-DC data cartridge PDP-11

Digital DEC System 5500 board set PDP VAX KN220 MIPS 3K

DEC PDP RSX 4.4 OS+ RT-11 Format Copy+ Uni Boot Flopies

Dec Digital Data Systems A4432-4 Floppy Control PDP 11

DEC PDP-8 E INSTRUCTION TEST 2

Rare UCP-11+ tri Z80 Coprocessor DEC Digital PDP-11 VAX

Lot 2 RARE Circuit Card from Dec Digital PDP11 PDP 11