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The Origin of Spacewar (5299 words) |
 | In the specially built computer room, The Operator set switches, pushed buttons, and examined panels of flashing lights, while his Assistants attended various whirring, clanking, and chattering devices, rushing to and fro with stacks of cryptically-printed paper, decks of weirdly-punched cards, and reels of recondite brown ribbon, all to the background hum of The Machine. |
| That was the TX-0, the world's first on-line computer, and the training ground for the designers and programmers of later generations of hands-on machines. |
| It was the first computer that did not require one to have an E.E. degree and the patience of Buddha to start it up in the morning; you could turn it on any time by flipping one switch, and when you were finished you could turn it off. |
| Table of Contents: The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2 (363 words) |
| Creative Computing can help you select the best computer and get the most out of it |
| Summary of the ACM Sixth U.S. Computer Chess Championship |
| This site maintained by Kevin Savetz.The Best of Creative Computing Volume 2 is copyright © 1977 by Creative Computing, and is posted on www.atariarchives.org with permission. |
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