wow. games have come a very long way since then. i just got a psp for xmas. so small - so powerful. back then a computer as powerful as a psp would probably be as big as an entite building.
 

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I became acquainted with this game at Bell Telephone Labs at Whippany, NJ on the mid shift in 1969. It was loaded on a PDP-11 system through use of a punched paper tape program in those days. My favorite part was setting the sun's gravity on and using its properties to pull my shots around into the opposing ship's path. Great fun and a good way to pass the time on a boring mid-shift. At the time, I was a tech on the GE 635/645 Main Frames for Bell Labs and Hoffmann-La Roche.
 

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how big was the PDP computer? the size or a car or bigger?
 

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The PDP-1 I used in 1973 was the size of 4 refrigerators. It was serial number 13 and had been retired from controlling a wind tunnel at JPL.
 

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It is NOT impossible to find a PDP-1 to play this game. See The Computer Museum in Mountain View. http://www.computerhistory.org/pdp-1/
Steve Russell is quite alive and well and just visited me here in my office. The PDP-1 is working with SpaceWar on it and often you can find Steve there demonstrating it !
Bob
 

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