Then fully booted still no gui, not even a CRT display... the interface terminal was a Teletype...oddly that machine had the old “Star Trek” game ...
output in ASCII drawings.. the first computer game was not a video game.. it was a teletype printer game ;)
I PLAYED THAT!....................had a printout of the old commands up until the late 90's when I cleaned out the shed!....................
Yep I ran a PDP8...to boot you had to enter the bootstrap loader on the front panel via 16 switch's (16 bits)...think it was five opt codes you had to enter in the first five memory locations...then hit run... this then would boot a “pizza box†drive (16 inch cartridge platter)
The bootstrap we used was two words loaded at 0030. The first told the RK05 to read the first block and the second jumped to itself. This would get overwritten as the block was read and then you were off to the races.
the first computer game was not a video game.. it was a teletype printer game
Actually, the first video game was a tennis-type game built in the '50s with an analog computer and an X/Y oscilloscope. I forget in which magazine I saw an article about it.