Young pups! Regards, Jim
On Sun, 2001-11-04 at 12:14, Bob Miller wrote: > 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. >
