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Yep. A friend of mine and myself got do this as well; CHM was running this pretty much every weekend as I recall. An incredible experience considering we went
by sbuttgereit 6y ago
Yep. A friend of mine and myself got do this as well; CHM was running this pretty much every weekend as I recall. An incredible experience considering we went to the museum that day on a whim with no specific plan.
Stephen Russell was talking to the participants and Peter Samson was actually operating the PDP-1... my guess is this was a regular thing for them.
An interesting note... not only was Stephen Russell a creator of effectively the first computer video game... he wrote the first Lisp interpreter based on John McCarthy's paper.
- leoc 6y ago> Steve Russell said, look, why don't I program this eval ..., and I said to him, ho, ho, you're confusing theory with practice, this eval is intended for reading, not for computing. But he went ahead and did it. That is, he compiled the eval in my paper into [IBM] 704 machine code, fixing bugs, and then advertised this as a Lisp interpreter, which it certainly was. So at that point Lisp had essentially the form that it has today.... John McCarthy, in an interview quoted in http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html . Anyone lucky enough to meet Russell at CHM should ask politely for a photograph with him.
- sbuttgereit 6y agoWell, while I didn't get the photo and I only spoke to him about "Spacewar!" and later reimplimentations (I didn't know about his link to Lisp at the time)... I nonetheless had him autograph a "Spacewar!" t-shirt for me.