Spacewar! (1962) - Steve Russell

Spacewar! on the PDP-1

Steve "Slug" Russell, developer of Spacewar!

From Left: Alan Kotok, Steve Russell, and Martin Graetz. Co-creators of Spacewar!

The Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics, hosted in 1972 by Rolling Stone

Sources:

"Alan Kotok, Steve Russell, Martin "Shag" Graetz play Spacewar!" Computer History Museum, DEC, 1983 http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102652236

Brand, Stewart. "Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums" Rolling Stone, 7 Dec, 1972. http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html

"Spacewar! - It Came from MIT" The Dot Eaters, http://thedoteaters.com/?bitstory=bitstory-article-1/spacewar



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