On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 2:04 AM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Wed, 8 Aug 2018, Jeffrey Brace via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Got to meet Steve Russell who created Space War and have him sign a Space War t-shirt. Didn't even know the guy was a docent there or what he looked like. I saw him in the bathroom and held the door open for him as he uses a walker, then later sat down for lunch and found out who he was. You never know who you run into there.
When I visited the CHM in 2005, Lyle Bickley gave us a sneak preview of the PDP-1 (it wasn't yet open to the public). He fired it up, and we also played Space War. I noticed a speaker on top of the machine, and asked if they had a music program running. Lyle said that Peter Samson was helping to recreate the music synthesizer he wrote at MIT for the PDP-1. As we were leaving the room, he said "Oh, there's Peter now!" He introduced me to Peter, who was also a docent at the CHM.
Yes, they first played the music program. Incredible! Very interesting story how they got the PDP-1 and how they got it working.
Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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