Re:Spacewar first ran on the PDP-1
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Well, live and learn! I didn't know that Bushnell
was ever at the University of Utah, or that they
had a PDP-1. Maybe he never did see Spacewar at
Sanders. Slashdot is a great source of information!
John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)
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I didn't know about Computer Space. I hope Nintndo knew about it when they disputed Bushnell's patent. Nintendo claimed that Spacewar constituted "prior art" and had me testify about the presence of the game at Sanders. They only told me what I needed to know, so I have no idea how that dispute was resolved. I believe the holder of the Pong patent wanted a license fee from every video game sold, which would be quite a piece of change.
John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)
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The review refers to the PDP 11, but the original
version of Spacewar ran on the PDP-1, which was
a $120,000 computer. Spacewar may have influenced
Pong, though there is no proof. I brought Spacewar
from Stanford to Sanders Associates in 1969, where
it was played on Sanders' PDP-1 at about the time
that Pong was invented. Unfortunately, there was
no log kept of PDP-1 users, so there is no proof
that the inventor of Pong played Spacewar.
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John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)
Nintndo knew about it when they disputed
Bushnell's patent. Nintendo claimed that
Spacewar constituted "prior art" and had me
testify about the presence of the game at
Sanders. They only told me what I needed to
know, so I have no idea how that dispute
was resolved. I believe the holder of the
Pong patent wanted a license fee from every
video game sold, which would be quite a piece
of change.
John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)
John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)
The term RAM was used in 1959 for core memory. John Sauter (J_Sauter@Empire.Net)