Re: Spacewar! on S/360

2013-02-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In conmi8967bojk3v5qe1ha720bf8cvgk...@4ax.com, on 02/25/2013 at 08:56 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: Is the MICHMODS OS360 precursor to the CBT tape archived anywhere? It's not a precursor. The CBT tape, Michican mods tape and MVS mods tape were independent of each other.

Re: Spacewar! on S/360

2013-02-25 Thread Clark Morris
On 24 Feb 2013 23:37:07 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: In a google search, I saw a textbook mention of the game, and that it was ported. No mention of the software. Did find a web site with the PDP-1 version with a PDP-1 emulator on the browser page at

Re: Spacewar! on S/360

2013-02-25 Thread John P Kalinich
The Michigan Mods tapes are on the CBT web site. Regards, John K From: Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date: 02/25/2013 06:56 AM Subject:Re: Spacewar! on S/360 Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu On 24

Re: Spacewar! on S/360

2013-02-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
spmcbr...@us.ibm.com (Sean P. McBride) writes: I recently found out that Edson Hendricks (the creator of VNET) wrote a copy of Spacewar! for the IBM System 360 while he was an MIT student. It was based on the PDP-1 version, and it was used by MIT for their annual open house in either 1965 or

Re: Spacewar! on S/360

2013-02-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes: VNET wiki reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_VNET misc. past posts mentioning internal network http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#7 Spacewar! on S/360 warning: vnet topic

Spacewar! on S/360

2013-02-24 Thread Sean P. McBride
All, I recently found out that Edson Hendricks (the creator of VNET) wrote a copy of Spacewar! for the IBM System 360 while he was an MIT student. It was based on the PDP-1 version, and it was used by MIT for their annual open house in either 1965 or 1966. My understanding is that this S/360

Re: Spacewar! on S/360

2013-02-24 Thread Mike Schwab
In a google search, I saw a textbook mention of the game, and that it was ported. No mention of the software. Did find a web site with the PDP-1 version with a PDP-1 emulator on the browser page at