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From: ar... Michael Ardai
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 1990 01:29

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In article <82...@aerospace.AERO.ORG> srt@aero.UUCP (Scott "TCB" Turner) writes:
>Still, it would be neat if they had a few ancient machines running.
>Can hardly blame them for focusing elsewhere, though.

They used to have a PDP-1 on display that they fired up for playing spacewar
on special occasions. (Definitely the best version of spacewar I have 
played :-).  Unfortunately, they needed place for those interactive graphics
demos, so the 1 went into storage...
/mike

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