Rob Hudson wrote:
> The first game invented specifically for the computer appeared in early
> 1962. A new $120,000 computer had just arrived at MIT that was faster
> and easier to use than the handful of other hulking machines on campus.
> And a group of young MIT programmers who just happened to be reading
> science fiction books about space battle had been itching to test it
> out. In less than a year, the programmers, led by Steven Russell,
> produced Spacewar, a game complete with rocket-powered spaceships,
> missiles, gravitational effects, and even an unpredictable "hyperspace"
> function. Although it was never commercialized, Spacewar inspired those
> who would bring video games to the masses 10 years later.
Hey, I know Slug Russell (Steven Russell to journalists). He hung out
at the Tech Model Railroad Club in the 1970s when I was an undergrad.
He was working at DEC then.
I've also seen some pieces of MIT's PDP-1, though it was long-deceased
by the time I got there.
Steven Levy's book, Hackers, chronicles the TMRC and MIT AI Lab era in
more detail.
http://www.echonyc.com/~steven/hackers.html
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Bob Miller K<bob>
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