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I wrote this comment for the IBM 362 submission (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4902345). Seems appropriate here.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View spent 2 years fully restoring a DEC PDP-1. You can go see it - I don't even think you need to pay for admission to the museum.

During the presentation, they load Spacewar! from paper tape, and two members of the audience can battle it out.

It's pretty amazing to play one of the first graphical computer games ever, on a computer first released 50 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacewar!#Spacewar.21_today



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