{"id":14733,"date":"2024-06-06T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/spacewar-is-back-rebuilding-the-worlds-first-gaming-computer\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T09:37:21","slug":"spacewar-is-back-rebuilding-the-worlds-first-gaming-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/06\/spacewar-is-back-rebuilding-the-worlds-first-gaming-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceWar is back! Rebuilding the world\u2019s first gaming computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966<\/p>\n

On my desk right now, sitting beside my ultra-modern gaming PC, there is a strange device resembling the spaceship control panel from a 1970s sci-fi movie. It has no keyboard, no monitor, just several neat lines of coloured switches below a cascade of flashing lights. If you thought the recent spate of retro video game consoles such as the Mini SNES and the Mega Drive Mini was a surprising development in tech nostalgia, meet the PiDP-10, a 2:3 scale replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1966. Designed and built by an international group of computer enthusiasts known as Obsolescence Guaranteed<\/a>, it is a thing of beauty.<\/p>\n

The origins of the project go back to 2015. Oscar Vermeulen, a Dutch economist and lifelong computer collector, wanted to build a single replica of a PDP-8 mainframe, a machine he had been obsessed with since childhood. \u201cI had a Commodore 64 and proudly showed it to a friend of my father\u2019s,\u201d he says. \u201cHe just sniffed and said the Commodore was a toy. A real computer was a PDP, specifically a PDP-8. So I started looking for discarded PDP-8 computers, but never found one. They are collectors\u2019 items now, extremely expensive and almost always broken. So I decided to make a replica for myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nA large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966
\nOn my desk right now, sitting beside my ultra-modern gaming PC, there is a strange device resembling the spaceship control panel from a 1970s sci-fi movie. It has no keyboard, no monitor, just several neat lines of coloured switches below a cascade of flashing lights. If you thought the recent spate of retro video game consoles such as the Mini SNES and the Mega Drive Mini was a surprising development in tech nostalgia, meet the PiDP-10, a 2:3 scale replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1966. Designed and built by an international group of computer enthusiasts known as Obsolescence Guaranteed, it is a thing of beauty.
\nThe origins of the project go back to 2015. Oscar Vermeulen, a Dutch economist and lifelong computer collector, wanted to build a single replica of a PDP-8 mainframe, a machine he had been obsessed with since childhood. \u201cI had a Commodore 64 and proudly showed it to a friend of my father\u2019s,\u201d he says. \u201cHe just sniffed and said the Commodore was a toy. A real computer was a PDP, specifically a PDP-8. So I started looking for discarded PDP-8 computers, but never found one. They are collectors\u2019 items now, extremely expensive and almost always broken. So I decided to make a replica for myself.\u201d Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966 On my desk right now, sitting beside my ultra-modern gaming PC, there is a strange device resembling the spaceship control panel from a 1970s sci-fi movie. It has …<\/p>\n

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