Peter Samson loading music program through PDP-1 tape reader during the Computer History Museum PDP-1 restoration project
Running Time: 00:10:22/11058 KB
Date: 2005-08
Copyright Owner: Computer History Museum
Accession: 102664158
Description: During the course of the restoration project, original MIT hacker Peter Samson, rebuilt Spacewar! from source tapes to work with the control boxes the team built, and to use the intensity feature of our display. He also read the music data tapes, reverse-engineered their data format, and wrote a program to play them.