KA10, PDP1, museum was Tony Wachs TW stories wanted
IIRC (and I'll now have to go into the archaeological dig in my basement...) I've got three delta-version listings, and on-screen scoring (using the outlines of the two spaceships) was not part of the first listing, and was in the third.
Bill Leary Yes, you are correct. In about 1982 (+-- a year or two), I visited the museum in Marlboro. There were several displays in the lobby, and the rest were on the mezzanine...
versions I've got are:
4.0, dated 2-2-63 4.2, dated 5-11-63 (with a torn scrap of greenbar where I scribbled notes about which buttons set which bits on the taper pin block (for the IOT instruction) from the drone controller someone bought from Eli's to run Spacewar on the PDP-1 on the first floor of building 20) 4.3, dated 5-17-63 4.4, dated 5-17-63 which still shows Monte's initials (ddp) but which vague memory says wasn't his update. It may have been my hack, but I hadn't yet learned the tao of marking changed lines in programs 8-(
And, of course, Pete Sampson's STARS.
Nope. The man end was Laurie's fiance and now I can't remember her last name. She was the TOPS-10 writer and one of my favorite people. It was her doing that started the...
H'mmm..."dfw" doesn't ring any bells, and I'm pretty sure that if I ever had a TMRC membership list it's long gone. If someone knows where Pete Sampson or Alan Kotok can be found they might be able to put a name to those initials. (Or maybe looking in the index to Hackers might yield a clue?)
The display-score code is missing from 4.0, but is present in the other three versions. None of the three listings that have the display score code show any initials; the code is about 2-1-2 pages long and is prefixed by the single line
display score routine
and contains a total of four in-line comments.
Joe Morris
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