Jim Darrough wrote:
> Well, I remember playing Kill the Klingons on a Plasma terminal in 1979
> at Naval Training Center. It was linked over Darpanet to some university
> computer system in, I believe New York.
I remember playing Lunar Lander on a GT40 at the Bates Linear
Accelerator in Lynn, Mass. around 1978-79.
The GT40 was a PDP 11/05 (the original pizza box computer, circa 1972)
with a display processor and vector CRT bolted to the top. It could
do very simple line drawings and refresh them in real time. Sort of
like the original Asteroids video game. it had no keyboard, just a
light pen.
Obligatory URLs.
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/dec/gt40/
http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/Images/gt40.jpeg
http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/11_10.html
Guys like Seth, who've only used computers for a few years, and who
only use them to read USENET, wouldn't know anything about this stuff.
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
