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Restored PDP-1 Demonstration

A restored PDP-1 playing music and running Spacewar!, the first computer game. It's running at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, and they do demos at 2pm and 2:45pm the 1st and 3rd...  
 
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wheagy (2 months ago) Show Hide
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This is amazing. Would be worth a trip from the east coast just to see this alone. Nice work!
viznut (3 months ago) Show Hide
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Actually, PDP-1 beats the VIC-20 both in terms of calculation speed (DIV takes up to 40 microseconds on the PDP-1 vs several hundreds on the 1 MHz 6502) and the amount of RAM in base configuration (4096x18 bits vs 5120x8+1024x4 bits)
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Very cool!!!
Videogamehistorian00 (3 months ago) Show Hide
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at least they made an arcade remake in 1977 of SpaceWar! called Space Wars, bassically the same game that runs faster and is on a normal vector monitor plus a ship that one of the ships looks like the enterprise
newcoleco (4 months ago) Show Hide
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For me, this is a good example of keeping alive the master piece of the video game history. Thanks!
cobrachoppergirl (8 months ago) Show Hide
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$120,000 kaliope... a Vic-20 is more powerful
argimenes (6 months ago) Show Hide
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It's a specious comparison. Of course a personal computer a decade newer is going to be more powerful. What's extraordinary is the achievement in the context of its time; and, of course, it's a cool frigging piece of hardware to look at.
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Nice music remembering that its from paper tape.. and that was one long tape for 30 seconds of music.

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