Digibarn Events: Ken Sumrall's tour of Spacewar! on the PDP-1
(Sep 21, 2006)

Thanks Ken Sumrall for a mind lifting journey into the hyperspace of 1962 in letting our gang play Spacewar! on the restored DEC PDP-1 at the Computer History Museum in September of 2006! See our still images below following by movies of the actual game play, then experience the world's first generative graphical visualizer, Snow Flake, and then hear the PDP-1 play polyphonic music.

Images of the PDP-1 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California

Member of the PDP-1 restoration team Ken Sumrall, booting the machine	CIMG7025.JPG	CIMG7026.JPG
CIMG7029.JPG	CIMG7031.JPG	Our guys, Daniel Kottke and friends, get set to play
Star cruisers chasing each other around the sun	CIMG7035.JPG	CIMG7036.JPG
Blinkenlights on the PDP-1 as play progresses	The Spacewar! game panel	CIMG7040.JPG
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Movies of Spacewar! being played on the PDP-1

Titled short version of PDP-1 Spacewar! (Windows Media)

Long untilted version of PDP-1 Spacewar! (Quicktime, streaming, low resolution) MP4 format (download, medium resolution) Windows Media (download highest resolution)

Short untitled version of PDP-1 Spacewar! (Quicktime, streaming, low resolution) MP4 format (download, medium resolution) Windows Media (download highest resolution)

Snow Flake on the PDP-1

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CIMG7071.JPG	And now for... Munching Squares!	CIMG7049.JPG

Movies of Snow Flake on the PDP-1

Snow Flake on the PDP-1 (Quicktime, streaming, low resolution) MP4 format (download, medium resolution) Windows Media (download highest resolution)

Another sequence of Snow Flake on PDP-1 (Quicktime, streaming, low resolution) MP4 format (download, medium resolution) Windows Media (download highest resolution)

PDP-1 playing Polyphonic Synthesized Music

About the music on the PDP-1 (Quicktime, streaming, low resolution) MP4 format (download, medium resolution) Windows Media (download highest resolution)

The PDP-1 playing music (Quicktime, streaming, low resolution) MP4 format (download, medium resolution) Windows Media (download highest resolution)

Misc

The Cray-1 at the Computer History Museum sits idly by as
we engage in the wonders of interactivity on the PDP-1!

See Also:

The Computer History Museum's pages on the PDP-1 Restoration

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