[vcf-midatlantic] VCF West XIII - My experience
Mike Loewen
mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Wed Aug 8 02:04:24 EDT 2018
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.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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