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Article #4252Re: computer museum
From: how... Louis Howell
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 17:01
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 1990 17:01
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Another thought I just had: If anyone actually writes an ENIAC simulator, it should have an option, settable by the user, of blowing a tube every ten minutes or so. The Science Museum did have one example of virtual preservation on display when I was there, now that I remember. They had an old PDP-whatever, the same model Space Wars was originally written for, sitting next to a modern machine running an identical, or at least similar, Space Wars game. Around 1978 I wrote a life program for the TRS-80. One day I started it running on a glider gun before school started. Around third period I came back to check it, and it had fired off one complete glider. In Xlife today a glider gun wriggles faster than you can see and shoots off a stream of gliders like a machine gun. -- Louis Howell
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!lll-winken!bert.llnl.gov!howell From: how...@bert.llnl.gov (Louis Howell) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: computer museum Message-ID: <1990Sep5.100141@bert.llnl.gov> Date: 5 Sep 90 17:01:41 GMT References: <3711@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <2201@opus.cs.mcgill.ca> <1990Aug31.160547@bert.llnl.gov> <1990Sep2.022449.17018@IRO.UMontreal.CA> <82964@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Sep5.085627@bert.llnl.gov> Sender: use...@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV Reply-To: how...@bert.llnl.gov (Louis Howell) Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 17 Posted: Wed Sep 5 18:01:41 1990 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit