It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Spacewar paper I wrote
with research from Martin Goldberg and responses from many people on this
list has finally been published.
The paper, Space Odyssey: The Long Journey of Spacewar from MIT to
Computer Labs Around the World is available for
Devin Monnens wrote:
It gives me great pleasure to inform you that the Spacewar paper I wrote
with research from Martin Goldberg and responses from many people on this
list has finally been published.
The paper, Space Odyssey: The Long Journey of Spacewar from MIT to
Computer Labs Around the
On 6/30/2015 5:14 AM, Devin Monnens wrote:
Martin and I would appreciate any feedback you have on the paper, including
anything we might have missed or gotten in error and any new insights or
memories you wish to share. Note we are still interested in collecting data
through our survey, which
On page 24 of the slides, the computer should be an IBM 1130 not 1160.
Bob
Ah! Thanks for pointing that out, Bob. The slides aren't used anymore
outside of the presentation, but I will fix that. (I think there's one or
two other errors in those slides...check the Spacewar demonstration
There's one machine not on you list although it doesn't surprise me. I
worked on an Adage AGT-30 that had an excellent version of Spacewar ported
to it (along with Life, Lunar Lander and 4x4x4 tic-tac-toe. These were all
running sometime prior to 1972.
I wonder if anyone else on the list worked
