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To: equaviator

The metallic-looking thing is a paper tape reader. Those yellow things under the console are fan-folded punched paper tapes.

Mr. Russell has gained weight since he developed Spacewar! on that machine (a DEC PDP-1) in 1961.

You can play Spacewar! here, on a PDP-1 emulator written in JavaScript.

12 posted on 07/23/2015 1:07:08 PM PDT by cynwoody

To: cynwoody

Hey, that’s pretty damned cool!

13 posted on 07/24/2015 1:34:37 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)

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