I never used one, but watched with awe the one we had at our school being used in the computer lab, 1980 i think it was ? There was a guru of a developer at the time who had programmed Pong off a set ...

Levy’s Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is something like required reading for the hacker subculture, and Hackaday by extension. The first section of that book is all about early hackers and ...

If you want to play the original Spacewar! but you don’t have a PDP-1 nearby, then you’re in luck — assuming you have a PDP-11, that is. [Mattis Lind] has successfully restored a PDP-11 port of the ...

Studying Computer Science in the late 70s we were given access to the departmental PDP11 (a /23 if memory serves) running Unix in our second year. After a year of submitting jobs on punched cards to ...