Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks Nathan. One thing I learned early on was not to play against the guy who wrote the program. However, one of my docent colleagues brags that he once beat Steve. Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you. On May 26, 2013, at 1:51 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote: > Cool tidbit! He should port the game to the iPad and sell it as an app. I > don't play games, but I would buy that one ;-) > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > On May 26, 2013, at 4:22 AM, Herbert Kanner wrote: > >> This is a shot of Steve in a lecture/demonstration of a PDP1 computer >> that volunteers at the Computer History Museum restored to working order. >> This was a three-year effort, taking place many years ago. This >> demonstration takes place twice a month, includes audience members >> getting to play Space War, which Steve wrote in the early 1960s. About >> the same period, another museum volunteer, Peter Sampson, wrote a program >> that enables the computer to play four-part music, sounding much like a >> pipe organ. >> >> Space War has two competing rocket ships, in the gravitational field of >> the sun, shooting torpedoes at each other. Because the computer did not >> have enough power to deal with the effect of gravity on the torpedoes, >> Steve decided to invent "photon torpedoes" unaffected by gravity. He also >> invented hyperspace, an emergency escape hatch, but claims that the >> hyperspace generator is defective and that no ship ever survived more >> than seven trips through hyperspace. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/herbk1/P1010233.jpg.html >> >> Herbert Kanner >> kanner at acm.org >> 650-326-8204 >> >> Question authority and the authorities will question you. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information