Computer History Museum

People watching Spacewar on DEC PDP-1

This is a color image of six people at a computer convention. Five people in the foreground are looking at aPDP-1 screen that is displaying two white objects which resembles the game Spacewar! The man in the background is bending over a desk that has the PDP-4 computer. All the men are facing away from the camera. Light is coming from overhead.

Item Details

Type
Still Image
Catalogue number
102652458
Category
Publicity Photograph
Snapshot
Identification Photograph
Format
Photographic Print
Credit line
Gift of Joanne and Irwin"Jake" Jacobs
Acquisition number
X3227.2006
Subject
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), PDP-1 (Computer), Spacewar (Computer game), Spacewar!