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Lyle Bickley explains the PDP-1 (and we play the original Spacewar!)

Lyle Bickley of the PDP-1 restoration team tours the 1959 DEC machine at the Computer History Museum and plays the original Spacewar! He covers its graphics display and the MIT student programs written for it.

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Why HN readers recommended it

Linked in Spacewar and vintage computing threads as a charming demo on real hardware.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
CuriousMarc
Topic
vintage computing
Format
demo
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
2
HN mentions in dataset
4
Recommendation years in dataset
2018–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • CuriousMark has a PDP11 video that has some of these demos running on the original hardware: [VIDEO] His videos are surprisingly addictive; they've restored an Apollo guidance computer, Altos and tonnes of other ancient kit.

    BuildTheRobots on Hacker News · 2020-01
    In Snowflake: Graphical SFTP client and terminal emulator with helpful utilities

  • Here's the same one on youtube with an interview with one of the people who restored it, it's quite an impressive machine. [VIDEO]

    chaos_a on Hacker News · 2020-12
    In The original "Spacewar!" running on a virtual DEC PDP-1

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