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I was maybe six years old, and was at an overnighter in a military base auditorium space - this was a Cub Scout thing or something. At one point, we could tour

by smm11 5y ago

I was maybe six years old, and was at an overnighter in a military base auditorium space - this was a Cub Scout thing or something. At one point, we could tour the nearby areas, where work was going on (in the depths of the Cold War). In one room, someone was pecking at a large terminal and mentioned how he was "talking" to someone on the West Coast. Why he wasn't on the phone, I couldn't imagine. Others a room over showed us Spacewar, and this melted my mind. Pong was one thing, this something altogether different. It came out in quarter-driven cabinet form, sort of, a year or two later, and I recall the scene. As I do now.

phkahler 5y ago
>> It came out in quarter-driven cabinet form, sort of, a year or two later, and I recall the scene. The quarter-driven version was from Cinematronics and was designed by Larry Rosenthal. Their vector-graphics were common in arcades in the late 70's. I've been meaning to put together a presentation on reverse engineering the hardware and writing an emulator for some time now. It's a fun exercise that many people could do given the schematics and some prom readouts. The CPU is a work of genius.