PDP-1 Restored At the Computer History Museum

May 15, 2006 | General | By: Mark VandeWettering

Paper tape from the restored PDP-1 at the Computer History Museum

Well, it’s kind of late, and I’m just back from my trip to the Computer History Museum, where they unveiled their restoration of a DEC PDP-1. The PDP-1 is notable for many reasons, not the least of which is that it was used to create what might possibly be the first video game: Spacewar!. I wrote an emulator for the PDP-1 a few years back, but tonight I got the thrill of running it on the real hardware.

I’ll write up some more about this tomorrow, but for now you can check out my gallery or maybe have a peek at some of the video I shot with my digital camera of Spacewar! running on the PDP-1.

[tags]Computer History Museum,Spacewar!,PDP-1[/tags]